PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Ulmus. 21 



2. U. suberosa. Common Cork-barked Elm. 



Leaves pointed, rough, doubly and sharply serrated. Flowers 

 stalked, four- or five-cleft. Capsule almost orbicular, 

 deeply cloven, naked. Branches spreading ; their bark 

 corky. 



U. suberosa. Ehrh. Arh. 142. Willd. v. 1. 1324. Baumz. 391. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 3 1 . ^. 2 1 6 1 . Comp. 42. 



U. campestris. Woodv, Med. Bot. t. 197. 



U. campestris et Theophrasti. Duham. Arb. ?;.2.367. 1. 108. 



Ulmus. Matth. Valgr. vA.\ 30. f. 



U. vulgatissima, folio lato scabro. Goodyer in Ger. Em. 1480./. 

 Rail Syn. 468. 



U. montana. Camer. Epit. 70, upper figure. 



Common Elm Tree. Hunt. Evel. Sylva tab. at p, 119. 



In hedges, in all parts of England. Goodyer and Ray. 



Tree. March. 



Taller and more spreading than the foregoing. Bark when a year 

 old covered with very fine dense cork, in deep fissures j whence 

 the name first given by Moench, and adopted by Ehrhart. Leaves 

 rough on both sides, more rounded, and twice or thrice as large, 

 as in our U. campestris, very unequal at the base, strongly, 

 sharply, and doubly serrated ; hairy beneath, with dense broad 

 tufts at the origin of the transverse ribs. Fl. much earlier than 

 the foliage, stalked, reddish, with 4 or 5 rounded segments, and 

 as many stamens with dull-purple anthers. Caps, nearly orbi- 

 cular, with a deep sinus reaching to the place of the seed. 



Of the value, or particular qualities, of the wood of this Elm, I 

 have no information, except that it is far inferior to the former. 

 There are various cultivated varieties, raised from seed, which 

 Mr. Crowe, who had closely attended to the subject, always 

 traced to this species. It seems to be Miller's U. sativa, n. 3, 

 whose error in quoting U. minor, folio angusto scabro, of Goodyer 

 in Gerarde, led to the same misapplication of that writer's sy- 

 nonyms in Fl.Br. 281, and Engl. Bot. 1886 and 2161. Miller, 

 moreover, thought our suberosa not a native of England. 



3. U. major. Dutch Cork-barked Elm. 



Leaves rough, unequally and rather bluntly serrated. 

 Flowers nearly sessile, four-cleft. Capsule obovate, 

 slightly cloven, naked. Branches drooping ; their bark 

 corky. 



U. major. Engl. Bot. v. 36. t. 2542. Comp. 43. 

 U. hoUandica. Mill. Diet. ed.8. n. 5. 



U. major hollandica, angustis et magis acuminatis samaris, folio 

 latissimo scabro. Pluk. Aim, 393. 



