to Messrs. Elwes and Henry is that growing on the lawn 

 at Tottenham House, Savernake, Wiltshire, which is 

 69 feet high and has a trunk measuring 9 feet 3 inches in 

 circumference at 4 feet from the ground. In height this 

 is slightly exceeded by a tree growing near the pond in 

 front of Museum No. 1 at Kew. This is 71 feet high, the 

 trunk having a girth of 5 feet 8 inches ; from this tree the 

 material for our figure was obtained. Though exceeded in 

 girth by several others in England the Kew tree surpasses 

 in height any other specimen of A. cor data in the British 

 Isles. The species is restricted to Southern Italy, from 

 the neighbourhood Naples southwards, and the islands of 

 Ischia and Corsica. On Mount Serino it forms forests. 

 The form figured has been distinguished as var. genuina, 

 Winkler (A. cordifolia, a genuina, Hegel), characterised 

 by the acute or acuminate leaves, while the form with 

 suborbicular leaves, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 is known as var. rotundifolia, Dippel (= A. rotundifolia, 

 ±Sertol). The latter, according to Briquet, is the only 

 lorm found in Corsica. It is also met with in Italy, but 

 less frequently than the variety genuina. A. cordata var. 

 tschmela, Sommier & Levier, from the Caucasus, is pro- 

 bably as Winkler suspects, the same as A. subcordata 

 VM.vdlosa, Regel A. elliptica, Reg., originally found on 

 the banks of the River Salenzara in Corsica, is a natural 

 hybrid between A. cordata and A. qlutinosa. The Italian 

 alder flowers in March before the appearance of the 

 leaves * or growing in damp places such as the margins 

 ot ponds and streams there are few more handsome trees ; 



™L S1Ze ? ? e 1 ? aves and their dee P lustrous green 

 colour make it perhaps the most desirable of the alders. 



pa g ated UCeS y and Can thus be readi1 ^ P r0 " 



hiJn ESC S P i TI0N -~^ ° f Py ramid *l shape, up to 80 ft. 

 twll' ™£ 1 gr v f yish - br ? wn ' Sli g h % verrucose ; young 

 orbfonW g h l 0US * if ams often wide °™te or almost 

 o™^/r etlmeS elhptic > a P ex acute or acuminate 



ssift r r w les 2^ date ' r % eiy roi !f ded -? r 



slahrn,,= Jtl 2 j J g ' 2_2 T ln - wide, and quite 

 oinie oL ' ^ green ' shiain ?' P al <* beneath, and 



quite glabrous save for tufts of hairs hi the angles of the 



