142 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Var, a, genuina, 



Plate MCCLXXXVII. 



Ticlcli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCLXII. Fig. 1332. 

 U. montana, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1887. 



Bmnclies without corky excrescences. Leaves rough. 



Var. 3, major. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCLXV. Fig. 1335. 



U. major, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 2542. 



U. suberosa, j3 major, Hoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 393. 



Branches with corky excrescences. Leaves rough, generally larger 

 than in var. a. 



Var. 7, nitida. 



U. glabra, y, latifolia, Lincl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 227. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 



285. 



Branches without corky excrescences. Leaves shining and glabrous 

 above. 



In woods and hedgerows. Generally distributed, but often planted. 

 Certairdy wild in the north of England, in Scotland, and the north of 

 Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Tree. Early Spring. 



U. montana resembles U. suberosa, but has fewer suckers or twigs 

 produced from the trunk ; the branches are longer and more spreading : 

 the leaves 3 to 6 inches long, generally much larger; broader in 

 proportion, and more acuminate or even cuspidate ; the young branches 

 generally more downy ; the samara is variable in shape, but larger 

 than in U. suberosa ; but the chief difference is in the position of the 

 seed-cavity, which is about the middle of the general outline of the 

 wing; the notch in both species is variable in depth, and in each 

 extends sometimes nearly down to the seed-cavity. 



U. major, of Smith, the so-called Dutch elm, certainly belongs to 

 U. montana, though in the figure in " English Botany " the seed in 

 the largest samara is placed near the apex of the wing, doubtless 

 through the inaccuracy of the draughtsman, who has correctly deline- 

 ated the other samaras in the fascicle. 



The var. y, nitida, is often confounded with var. glabra of U. 

 suberosa, but it has all the essential characters of the normal U. 

 montana. 



Broad-leaved Elm. 



Freneb, Orme^de moniagne. German, Feld- TJlme. 



This species of elm is sometimes called tlie Scotch or wych elm. It is of quicker 

 growth than the former species, and the wood is consequently far inferior in hardness 



