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Ireland and the Channel Islands. It is found at a 
height of 1300 ft. in Yorkshire. 
Though this graceful Elm is so common in the 
hedgerow by the roadside, where its wide-spreading 
branches cast a grateful shade above the road and 
make avenues, yet it is found also commonly in 
woods, where, unlike the Common Elm, it may be 
regarded as truly native. It is also common in 
fields, in the hedgerow, in parks, gardens and similar 
places. 
It can be recognised at once by its drooping 
branches and often twisted trunk. The bark is 
deeply furrowed, corky. The branches are sent out 
near the base, or higher up, but always hang down 
at the extremity. The leaves are large, acuminate, 
doubly serrate, and unequal at the base. They are 
very rough above, and downy below. The twigs are 
pubescent, and are not corky. 
The flowers are apetalous, with a ciliate perianth 
containing six to eight anthers with obtuse lobes. 
The samara has the seed in the centre, with a veined 
winged appendage, and notched above. 
The Wych Elm is 8o ft. in height when well 
grown. It is in flower from March to April. 
The bisexual flowers have five filaments with 
anthers opening externally. 
The styles are subulate, two in number, and 
stigmatic on the inner surface. 
There are leaves at the base in the lowest ten to 
twelve axils with flowers above, in dichasial cymes 
