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1. Ulmus montana, Wtch or Scotch Elm. Resembles our Slippery 

 Elm, but the buds not rusty-downy;, flowers short-pedicelled, and fruits more 

 leaf-like : occasionally planted. 



U. campestris, English Elm. A large tree with the branches spread- 

 ing at right angles from the trunk ; leaves small and smoothish ; fruit obovate, 

 not ciliate, with a deep notch at the apex reaching nearly to the cell : occa- 

 sionally planted as a shade-tree. 



2. Morus nigra, Black Mulberry, from W. Asia, to be added to tho^o 

 described in Man. p. 397. Leaves heart-shaped, with shallow lobes or none, 

 rough ; fruit oblong, red or black, edible. 



3. Broussonetia papyrifera, Paper Mulberry. A shade-tree, from 

 Japan, &c, spreading by suckers, with a tough bark ; leaves rough above, 

 downy beneath, serrate, some of them ovate or slightly heart-shaped, others 

 3 -cleft or variously lobed : flowering in spring. 



4. Madura aurantiaca, Osage Orange, Bow-wood (Bois d'arc). A 

 low bushy tree, from Arkansas, &c, multiplying rapidly by the root, used for 

 hedges ; branches slender, armed with slender spines ; leaves lance-ovate, 

 pointed, entire, smooth and shining above, roughish beneath ; fruit (consisting 

 of the coalescent pistillate flowers) when ripe of the size, shape, and color of 

 an orange. Tough wood, used for bows. 



5. Fi<3US Cai'iea, Eig-tree. Cult, as a shrub or small tree, a house-plant 

 at the North, with stout branches full of acrid milky juice; leaves large, 3-5- 

 lobed, cordate at the base, rough above, pubescent beneath ; figs pear-shaped, 

 produced singly in the axils of the leaves, seemingly without any flower, the 

 flowers being minute and inside, lining the walls of the fig, which is a hollow 

 flower-stalk, becoming pulpy, sweet, and luscious 



F. elastica, the India-Rubber-tree of East Indies (not that of South 

 America, which belongs to the Spurge Family) ; a handsome tree, of house 

 culture, full of milky juice (India-rubber or caoutchouc); with large, coria- 

 ceous, entire, elliptical or oblong, very smooth, bright green and shining leaves 

 having straight transverse veins ; figs small and sessile in the axils, not eatable, 

 seldom produced in cultivation. 



Order JUGLANDACEJ1. Walnut Family. 



Manual, p. 401. — To the wild species already described, add 



1. Juglans regia, the true Walnut, called English Walnut, because 

 we received it from the mother country, but it is a native of Asia ; a fine tree 

 in the Middle States ; leaflets oval, acutish, entire, smooth or nearly so ; fruit 

 round-oval, smoothish ; the nut with a nearly smooth surface, thin-shelled ; 

 seldom ripening well in this country, usually imported. 



Order CUPXJLIFERJE. Oak Family. 



Manual, p. 403. — Several species are beginning to be introduced in orna- 

 mental planting ; but only two are at all common, viz. : — 



1. Quereus Robur, English Oak. Belongs to the same section with 

 our White Oak ; but leaves smaller than in that species, not glaucous beneath, 

 sinuate-lobed but hardly pinnatifid ; acorn oblong, over an inch long, — on 

 or a few in a cluster nearly sessile in the axils in var. sessiliflora,— raised 

 on a slender peduncle in var. pedunculata. 



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