U L I U S glabra.
Smooth-leaved, or Wych Elm,
PENTANDRIA Digynia, :
G en. Char. Cal. 4- or 5-clhft, inferior, permanent,
Cor. none. Capsule membranous, compressed,
nearly flat, with 1 seed,
Spec. Char. Leaves doubly serrated, unequal at the
base, smooth. Flowers nearly sessile, five-cleft.
Fruit obovate, naked, cloven,
Svn. Ulmus glabra. Mill. Diet. ed. 8 . n. 4. Cul-
lurn. Angl. Fl. 97.
U. mo.ntana (3. Sm. F l. Brit. 282, var. 2. Hull,
ed. 2. 75.
*TJ. folio glabro. Ger. em. 1481. Ran Syn. 469,
U. campestrig var. 3. With. 279. Hull. 57.
M r . EDW A R D FORSTER, so accurately attentive to the
botany of bis own country, has procured us specimens of this
Elm, which he says is the most abundant species in some parts
o f Essex. W e had the flowers in March, the fruit in May,
and the leaves in the end of June,
This is an elegant tree, with spreading drooping branches,
whose bark is smooth and blackish. The leaves are more oblong
and more rigid than in U; suherosa, t. 2161, very unequal
at the base, quite smooth to the touch above, and nearly
so beneath, except that the rib and veins are there more or less
downy, like other species. The flowers are nearly sessile,
fringed, 5-cleft, and the fruit small, obovate, Woven at the
top, often reddish, Goodyer in Gerarde’s Herbal says the
wood is preferred for the naves of cart-wheels,— Mr. Forster
is of opinion that our campestris, t. 1886, is the V. minor, folio
angusto scalro, of Goodyer and Ray, and very little known
out of Norfolk, our suherosa, t. 2161, being U. vulgatissima,
folio lato scalro, of those writers. I f so, our Norfolk Elm is
well vprthy 0f cultivation in other counties for its hard and
durable wood.