Ulmtis a?nericaiia, 

 THE AMERICAN ELiM. 



Sj/nonymes. 



UJmus americana, 



Orme d'Amerique, Orme parasol, 



Amerikanische Ulme, 



Ulmo aniericano, 



American White Elm, Canadian Elm, 



"White Elm, Rock Elm, 



LiN.viEus, Species Plantanim. 

 MicHAUX, North American Sylvs. 

 Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 

 France. 



CiKKMANY. 



Italy. 



Britain. 



Anglo-America. 



Engravings. Michaux, Norih American Sylva, pi. 126; Loudon, Artraretuni Brilannicum, iii., fig. 1M6, and vii. pL 243 

 et 244 ; and the figures l)elow. 



Specific Characters. Leaves with their disks unequal at the base, 4 5 inches long, inclusive of a long, 

 acuminate point, from 2 2^ inches broad, serrate, and mostly doubly so ; the axils of the veins under- 

 neath joined by a membrane ; petioles from 1 1^ inches in length, and clothed with short hairs. 

 Flowers efluse, with the peduncles short and glabrous. Stamens 5 8. Samarae fringed at the edge?: 

 with hairs, ovate, acute. Young branches brown, and covered with fine, short hairs. Adapted, from 

 WUldmcm^s Enum. Ptarit. 



Description. 



IHE Ulmus 

 americana, 

 when stand- 

 ing in the 

 forest, IS a lot'ty tree, with a retnarka- 

 bly clean, straight, round trunk, with 

 a small, much contorted head; but, in 

 a clearing, where it grows in an insu- 

 lated manner, receiving a full supply of 

 light and air, it appears in all its ma- 

 jesty, towering to an elevation of eighty 

 or one hundred feet, with a stem from 

 four to six feet in diameter, which, at 

 ten or twenty feet above its base, usually ramifies into three or more primary 

 limbs, that continue gradually spreading otUward and upwards to a great length, 

 dividing and sub-dividing into many smaller ramifications, and diffusing, on all 

 sides, numerous long, flexible, and pcndulotis branChlets, bending into regular fes- 

 toons, and giving to the tree a broad and somewhat flat- topped summit, of regu- 

 lar proportions and admirable beauty. When growing in the last-named situa- 

 tion, this tree is often marked by two or more small branches, four or five feet 

 in length, proceeding from near the first ramification, and desceiuling along the 

 trunk ; and the larger branches or limbs are sometimes covered with little ragged 

 twigs, as if clothed willi tufts of hair. The bark of the trunk is ti'uder, deeply- 

 furrowed, and almost while. The leaves, which are four or live inciies long, are 

 alternate, unequal at the base, oval-acuminate, generally doubly denticulated, 

 with regular and prominent ribs, rough, and of an almost glossy deep-green above, 

 and pale and downy beneath. The flowers, which appear in INlarch. April, or May, 

 before the leaves, are very small, of a purplish colour, suj)ported by short, sleii- 



