DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 59 
gray or brown bark and a low, spreading top. Leaves leathery, 
evergreen, oblong or oblanceolate, often somewhat 3-lobed on young 
trees, margin rolled under, dark green and shining above, pale 
below ; petioles short, stout. Fruit often in short racemes, cup top- 
shaped, scales closely appressed, hoary, peduncles 3-1 in. long; acorn 
from subglobose to oblong, the longer form occurring on the younger 
trees. On low ground near the coast ; wood very hard and durable ; 
valued for shipbuilding.* 
19. ULMACEZ. Em Famity. 
Trees or shrubs with watery juice, alternate, simple, petio- 
late, serrate, stipulate leaves, which are usually 2-ranked ; 
and small, perfect, or somewhat moncecious, apetalous flowers. 
Calyx of 3-9 sepals which are distinct or partly united, 
3 stamens as many as the sepals and 
Xy opposite them. Ovary 1-2-celled, 
styles 2, spreading. Fruit a key, 
nut, or stone fruit.* 
Fic. 9.— Ulmus campestris. 
A, a flowering twig ; B, a flower; C, longitudinal section of a flower; D, a fruit. 
I. ULMUS, L. 
Trees with straight-veined, unsymmetrical, doubly serrate 
leaves; stipules early deciduous. Flowers perfect, calyx 
bell-shaped, 4—9-cleft. Stamens slender, protruding. Ovary 
compressed, styles 2, spreading. Fruit membranaceous, flat, 
winged on the edge.* 
