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ULMUS montana.
Broad-leaved Elm. Wych Hasel.
PENTANDRIA Digynia.
G en. Char. Cal. 4 or 5-cleft, inferior, permanent.
Cor. none. Capsule membranous, compressed, nearly
flat, ■ with 1 seed.
Spec. C har. Leaves doubly serrated, pointed, rough,
unequal at the base. Flowers on short stalks, five-
or six-cleft, with five or six stamens. Fruit roundish,
naked.
S y n . Ulmus montana. Bauh. Pin. 4 2 7 . With. 279,
Hull. 5 7 . Relh. 103.
U. campestris. FI. Dan. t. 6 3 2 . Huds. 109, y,
Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. 132 4.
U. glabra. Huds. ed. 1. 9 5 .
U. effusa. Sibth. 8 7 . Abbot. 5 5 .
U. nuda. Ehrh. Arb. 6 2 .
U. folio latissimo scabro. Goodyer in Ger. em. 1481.
Ravi Syn. 4 6 9 .
C o m m o n in woods and hedges throughout Britain, f lo w e r ing
in March or early in April, and ripening seed in J u n e
when the leaves are full-grown. The wood of this is m u c h
less hard and valuable than the preceding. The tree is la r g e ,
with spreading, often drooping, and sometimes quite p e n d u lous
branches. Leaves much larger than in TJ. campestris,
and somewhat less rough, with longer points. Flowers a li t t le
larger, and on rather longer stalks, blush-coloured. - C a l y x
fringed, in 5 , 6 or even 7 segments, with the same n um b e r
of stamens. Fruit larger, round rather than oblong, s om e times
cbovate, more scariose and hop-like than in the campestris.
W e trust the. above synonyms are quite correct, but we are
inclined to think the U. folio glabro of Goodyer and R a y m a y
be a distinct species, and that it is the'ci/iahz-of E h r h a r t ,
effusa of Willdenow. To settle this point we must seek fo r
indubitably wild British specimens. In the mean while it is
o f use to ascertain two species, as the genus has long b e e n a
reproach to botanists. IfLightfoot be correct, this U.folio
glabro is common in Scotland. Goodyer says it grows in
Essex between Rumford and Stubbers.