271 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Ulmus. 



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Shrub Stone-Crop^ or Glasswort* Sea shore. [Near South- 

 wold. Suffolk, Mr. Woodward.] S. Aug. 



TJL'MUS. Ceil. 5 -cleft : bloss. none y caps, su- 

 perior, 1 -celled; leaf-like and compressed: 



seed solitary. 



"campes'tris.U. Leaves doubly serrated, unequal at the base: flowers 



almost sitting, crowded together. 





Wood<o. 157--F/- dan. 632-Hunt* EwLup. 114. ed. 2- 

 Park. 1404. 1. 6-MattL 144-Zo£. obs. 607. \-Ger.tm. 

 1480. \~Park. 1404. l-Ger. 1297. 1-Trag. 1087. 



The flowering-buds are beneath the leaf-buds. Flowers in a 

 kind of corymbus. Bark of the trunk cracked and wrinkled. 



Common Elm. Hedges. Not found to the north of Stam- 

 ford. Ray. Plentiful in Worcestershire and Middlesex. Chiefly 

 in hedge rows. T. March, April.* 



Var. 2. small. Differs from the preceding only in the small- 

 ness of all its parts. Ray. 



Dod. &3J-Ger. em. 1480. <2-Park. 1404. 4. 



Between Christ Church and Limmington. Ray. [In Lord 

 Dudley's woods, at Himley, Staffordshire.] 



Narrow-leaved Elm. 



Var. 3. Leaves smooth. Ger. em. Ray. &c. 



Stamens from 4 to 6". 



Ger. 129;. "-Ger. em. 1481. 4-Par*. 1404. 3. 



Witch Elm. Road beyond Dartford, and near Rumford. 

 Ray. and Ger. [Growing to a very large size in Edgbaston 

 Park.] T. March, April. 



* A decoction of the inner bark drank freely has been known to carry 



offthe water in dropsies. —It cures the Lepra ictbyhosis of Sauvages. L* ttm 

 somsMed. Mem. \ j — The bark dried and ground to powder, has been 

 mixed with meal in Norway to make bread, in times oi scarcity. ~*J he 

 flowers have a violet smell. — The wood being hard and tough is used to 

 make axle-trees, mill-wheels, keels of boats, chairs, and coffins.— ^ Il J 

 tree is beautiful, and well adapted to make shady walks as it does not 

 destroy the grass, and its leaves are acceptable to Cows, Horses, Goats, 

 Sheep and Swine; fortius purpose it should be grafted upon the U.gk* ra > 

 and then the roots will not send out suckers, which the common elm 1 

 very apt to do, and give a great deal of trouble to keep the ground clca 

 of them —It loves an open situation, and black or clayey soil. It bea ' 

 to be transplanted.— Papil* polycbleros, and C. album ; Pbalxna l»^ ut t e £] 

 Pavoma betularia and vellica ; Cimex ulmi and strlatus ; Cicada ulmi ; ty "* 



ulmi, feed upon it. The latter generally curl the leaves, so as to ma 

 them a secure shelter against the weather. Linn. — Silk-worms wii* ■*" 

 vour the tender leaves with great avidity. Trans. ofSoc, of Arts, U. H*' 



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