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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



ULMUS. 



Pentandria Digynia. Linn. Amentacese. Juss. Astringent , tonic, emollient. 



Wahoo. XJlmus alata. 



The Wahoo is a stranger 

 to the Middle and Northern 

 States, and to the mountain- 

 ous regionsof the Alleghanies; 

 it is found only in the lower 

 part of Virginia, in the mari- 

 time districts of the Carolinas 

 and Georgia, in West Ten- 

 nessee and in some parts 

 of Kentucky. Probably it 

 grows also in the Floridas 

 and in Lower Louisiana, of 

 which the soil and climate 

 are analogous to those of the 

 maritime parts of the South- 

 ern States, and of which the 

 vegetable productions, with 

 few exceptions, are the same. The name of Wahoo, given to 

 this species of elm, in South Carolina and Georgia, is derived 

 from the Indians. This tree grows of preference on the banks 

 of rivers and in the great swamps inclosed in the pine-barrens. 



The wahoo is of a middling stature, commonly not exceeding 

 30 feet, with a diameter of 9 or 10 inches. The branches are 

 furnished throughout their whole length, on two opposite sides, 

 with a fungous appendage, two or three lines wide, from which 

 the name of alata, winged, has been given to the species. The 

 leaves are borne by short petioles, and are oval, denticulated, 

 and smaller than those of the white and red elms. The flowers, 

 like those of other elms, open before the leaves. The seeds are 

 fringed and differ from those of the white elm only by a little 

 inferiority of size. 



PLATE XCVIII. 

 Fig. I. A leaf. Fig. 2. The seed. 



