ELMS 



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Wych Elm. Ulimis montana Stokes. 

 Vlmus folio latissimo scabro. Witch Hasell, or the broadest 

 leaved Elme. 



This groweth to be a very great tree, and also very high, 

 especially when he groweth in woods amongst other trees : the 

 barke on the outside is blacker than that of the first, and is also 

 very rough, so that when there is plenty of sap it will strip or 



The Wych Elm.^ 



peele from the wood of the boughes from the one end to the 

 other, a dozen foot in length or more, without breaking, whereof 

 are often made cords or ropes : the timber hereof is in colour 

 neere like the first ; it is nothing so firme or strong for naves of 

 Carts as the first is, but will more easily cleave ; this timber is also 

 covered with a white sappe next the barke : the branches or young 



^ Ger. emac. 14S1. 3 ; copied in Parkinson, 1404.2. (Stokes' edit, of Wither' 

 ing, 1787.) 



