1678 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Description, §c. Trees, rarely exceeding the middle size; and some so 
low as to be considered shrubs. With the exception of A. glutindsa lacini- 
ata and A. cordifolia, the species are not very ornamental ; nor is the timber 
of great value, except for the charcoal which may be made from it. All 
the species prefer a moist soil, or one in the vicinity of water. A. glutindsa 
ripens seeds freely, as do most of the other sorts; but all the latter are 
generally propagated by layers. The only truly distinct species appear to us 
to be, A. glutinédsa, A. cordifolia, A. incana, A. oblongata, and A. viridis ; 
which last seems an intermediate species, or connecting link, between Alnus 
and Bétula. 
4% 1. A. cLuTINo'’sA Gerin. The glutinous, or common, Alder. 
Identification. Gertn., 2. p. 54.; ‘Willd. Sp. Pl. 4 p. 334. ; Comp., ed. 4., p. 3 
- t. 59., Scot., 271. ; Hoss. Anleit. — gk Cat., ed. 1836, si eh eee 
ymony mes. tulus A/inus Lin. Sp. Pl., 1394. a, Fl. Br., 1013., Eng. Bot., 21. t. 1508. 
ginata Ehrh. Arb.,9.; A’Inus Raitt Syn., 449, : Aune, Fr. c peak Else, or iver pa bean 
Erle, Ger.’; Elsenboom, Dutch ; Alno, or Ontano, Ital. ; Aliso, or Alamo nigro Span 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1508. ; Hunt, Evel. Syl., 240. f.; Ger.’Emac., 1477. f. 5 Lob. Ic., 2. 191. £5 
es. Pruss., t. 1.; Dalech. Hist., 97. f. ; our jig. 1540, ; and the plate of this species in our last 
Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated, glutinous 
rather abrupt ; downy at the branching of the veins beneath. (Eng. Fl. iv. 
p. 131.) A tree, from 30 ft. to 60 ft. high; a native of Europe, from Lapland 
to Gibraltar; and of Asia, from the White Sea to Mount Caucasus; and 
also, of the north of Africa; flowering, in Britain, in March and April. 
Varieties. 
¥ A. g. 2 emarginata Willd. Baum., p. 19., 1598 
has the leaves nearly round, wedge- SU a ae 
shaped, and edged with light green. way ¥ ee 
¥ A. g.3 lacinidta Ait. Willd., 1. c., Lodd. ay | = 
Cat., ed. 1836; A. g. incisa Hort.; our yy Pe, V VA WH,” 
fig.1538., and the plate of a fine tree at ~y ’ UZ 
Syon, in our last volume; has the leaves NR) ZA) Ves 
oblong and pinnatifid, with the lobes 
acute. Wild in the north of France, 
particularly in Normandy, and in the 
woods of Montmorency, near Paris. 
(N. Du Ham.) Thoum, in the year 
1819, in the Nouveau Cours d’ Agricul- 
ture, states that the cut-leaved alder was 
first found by Trochereau de la Berliére, 
and planted by him in his garden near 
St. Germain, where the stool still remains from which all the nurseries 
of Paris have been supplied with plants, and, probably, al] Europe. 
* A. g. 4 quercifolia Willd., |. c., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.— Leaves sinu- 
ated, with the lobes obtuse. 
¥* A. g. 5 oxyacanthefolia ; A. oxyacantheefolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; and 
our jig. 1539.— Leaves sinuated and lobed; smaller than those of the 
preceding variety, and somewhat resembling those of the common 
hawthorn. 
* A. g. 6 macrocérpa ; A. macrocarpa Lodd. Cat., 1836 ; has the leaves 
and fruit rather larger than those of the species, and is also of more 
vigorous growth. 
¥* A.g.7 foliis variegatis Hort. has the leaves variegated. 
Other Varieties. There are some other names applied to plants in the col- 
lection of Messrs. Loddiges, which, we think, can only be considered as 
varieties of A. glutindsa; or, perhaps, of A. incana; but the plants are so 
small, that we are unable to determine whether they are sufficiently distinct 
to be worth recording. Among these names are, A, nigra, A. rubra, A. 
licata, and A. undulata. A. rubra is said to be a native of the Island of 
Sitcha. (Annal. des Scien. Nat., 3. p. 237.) Some of the sorts treated as 
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