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# 8. C. Levica‘ta Willd. The glabrous-/eaved Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 68.; Willd. Baumz., p. 81.; Rem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 
rata 
Synonyme. Sprengel has suggested, in the Index to his Syst. Veg., that glabrata is the epithet fitter 
for this species than levigata: glabrata signifies rendered, or become, bald ; devigata, rendered 
perfectly even in surface. 
Spec. Char., &§c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, subcordate at the base, nearly entire ; glabrous on the 
upper surface ; roughish upon the veins on the under one. (Willd. Enum. oe In Rem. et 
Schult. Syst. Veg., a somewhat different specific character is quoted from Willd. Wild. Baumz., 
p. 81., the following: — Leaves ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, unequal there, nearly 
entire, glabrous on both surfaces. Additionally to the specific character, it is stated as follows : — 
It isa large tree. Its leaves have 1—2 teeth at the tip. It isa native of Louisiana. To this kind 
seems to belong that Céltis named C. americana, or Micocoulier de la Louisiane, cultivated in the 
Paris Garden, which Poiret, in Encycl. Suppl., 3. p. 668., No. 10., has noticed to have its leaves 
membranous, rough on both surfaces, yet nearly glabrous ; with the base with one side shorter 
than the other, and narrower, and some leaves almost falcate. 
&% 9. C. pu‘mILA Ph. The dwarf Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Pursh F1. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 200. ; Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 307. 
Spec. Char., &§c. A small straggling bush. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate with equal teeth, 
unequal at the base; downy while young, afterwards nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers 
3 upon a peduncle. Fruit solitary, ovate, black. Indigenous to the banks of rivers in Maryland 
and Virginia, where it flowers in May. Pursh has seen the kind alive. (Pursh Fl. A. S.) The 
plant was introduced by Lyon in 1812; and the name is in Loddiges’s Catalogue, ed. 1836; but we 
have not seen the plant there or elsewhere. 
App. i. Species of Céltis half-hardy, or not yet introduced. 
C. orientalis Lin., R. Mal, 4. t. 40., and our fig. 1255., is 
anative of the Himalayas, introduced in 1820. In foliage it 
resembles C. occidentalis; but we have only seen a very 
small plant of it, against a wall, in the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden. In p. 174, five Himalayan species are 
enumerated as likely to prove hardy or half-hardy ; but 
none of them are yet introduced. In the Hortus Britan- 
nicus three species are enumerated as indigenous to Ja- 
maica, and as, in Britain, requiring the stove ; but, as C. | 
orientalis is also designated as a stove tree in catalogues, 
it is possible that the Jamaica species may be equally 
hardy. In the Himalayas, Royle observes, the genus 
Céltis occurs at considerable elevations, and as far north 
as Cashmere. C. orientalis Wail., which we suppose to 
be identical with C. orientalis Lin., “‘and species allied to 
it, occur in the hottest places; C. tetrandra Roxb. extends 
along the foot of the mountains as far as Cashmere.” C. 
alpina Royle was found by Mr. Royle on Urrutka, nearly 
at the greatest elevation, and if it were introduced would, 
doubtless, be hardy in the climate of London. C. Inglésiz 
Royle occurs in Kunawur ; and is, doubtless, equally hardy 
with C. alpina As the seeds of Céltis go in little bulk, 
and retain their vital energies for at least a year, there 
will be little difficulty, we think, in getting these species 
introduced into Britain. 
CHAP. CII. 
OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER JUGLANDA CE. 
Tue hardy ligneous plants of this order are included in the genera named 
and characterised as under: — 
Ju‘ctans L. Flowers unisexual; those of both sexes upon one plant. — 
Male. Flowers in cylindrical, drooping, solitary catkins ; many in a catkin: 
the catkins developed from buds borne by shoots produced previously to 
the year in which the catkins appear. Calyx of 5—6 scales, that are 
attached to a bractea at a distance from its base and tip. (1s the flower 
stalked, and connate with the bractea ?) Stamens 18—36.—Female. Flowers 
solitary, or a few in a group, terminal upon a shoot developed in the same 
year. Calyx ovate, including and adhering to the ovary, except in the 
4-toothed tip. Petals 4, small, inserted into the free part of the calyx. 
Ovary of one cell, and one erect ovule. Stigmas 2—3, fleshy, scaly with 
