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long, some are longer and broader, some narrower and shorter, 

 rough or harsh in handling on both sides, nickt or indented about 

 the edges, and many times crumpled, having a nerve in the middle, 

 and many smaller nerves growing from him : the leafe on one side 

 of the nerve is alwaies longer than on the other. On these leaves 

 oftentimes grow blisters or small bladders, in which at the spring 



The Common Elm.' 



are little wormes, about the bignesse of Bed-fleas. This Elme is 

 common in all parts of England, where I have travelled. 



Ulimts minor Miller. 

 Vlmus minor folio angusto scabro. The Narrow leaved Elme. 



This tree is like the other, but much lesser and lower, the leaves 

 are usually about two inches and a halfe long, and an inch or an 



^ This figure originally appeared in Mathiolus, 144; was copied in Lobel^ 

 Obs. 607. I ; reproduced in Ger. eniac. 1480. i, and reappeared in Parkinson, 

 1404. I. 6. It shows blisters on the leaves. 



