1678 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART HI. 



Description, ^-c. Trees, rarely exceetling the middle size; and some so 

 low as to be considered shrubs. With the exception of A. glutinosa lacini- 

 Ata and A. cordifolia, the species are not very ornamental ; nor is the timber 

 of great value, except for the charcoal which ma}' be made from it. All 

 the species prefer a moist soil, or one in tlic vicinity of water. A. glutinosa 

 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. glutinosa, A. cordifolia, A. incana, A. oblongata, and A. viridis; 

 which last seems an intermediate species, or connecting Unk, between y/'Inus 

 and jyetula. 



$ 1. A. GLUTiNo'sA Gcvrtn. The glutinous, or comvwn, Alder. 



Identification. n.Trtn., 2. p. >1. ; ' WillU. Sp. PI., 4. p. .3.34. ; Comp., ed. 4., p. 1J5. ; Hook. l^nA., 



t 5<i Scot., 271. ; Hoss. Anieit., 186. ; \joAA. Cat, cd. I83ii. 

 Synonymes. iBctulus y/'lnus Lin. Sp. PL, 13M. a, Ft. Br., 1013., Engi. Bot., 21. t. 1508.; B. emar. 



Kiiiata A'ArA. Arb.,^. ; //'Inus Haii Syn., 4-12.; Aunc, Fr. ; gcmcine Flsc, or Elser, or 8chwartz 



Erie Cut ■• Elscnboom, Dutch ; Alno, or Ontano, Ital. j Aliso. or Alamo nigro, Span. 

 Enera'vings. liiig. Bot., t. 1508. ; Hunt. Kvel. .Syl.,24<). f. ; Ger. Emac., 1477. I". ; Lob. Ic, 2. 191. f. ; 



Locs. Pruss., t. 1. ; Dalech. Hist., 97. f. ; our^^. 154<). ; and the plate of this species in our last 



Volume. 



Spec. Char., c'J-c. Leaves roundish, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated, glutinous, 

 rather abrui)t ; downy at the branching of the veins beneath. (E>ifr. Fl., iv. 

 p. 131.) A tree, from .30 ft. to 00 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. 



K A. g. 2 cmarginata Willd. Baum., p. 19., 

 has the leaves nearly round, wedge- 

 shaped, and edged with light green. 



4 A. g. 3 Incinidta Ait. Willd., 1. c, Lodd. 



Cat., ed. 1836; A. g. incisa //o>7. ; our 

 /?g.l3.38., and the plate of a fine tree at 

 "Syon, in our last volume; has the leaves 

 oblong and pinnatifid, with the lolies 

 acute. Wild in the north of France, 

 particularly in Normandy, and in the 

 woods of" Montmorency, near Paris. 

 (.V, Dn Ham.) Thouin, in the year 

 1819, in \\\e Xouvcau Coum (V Agriciil- 

 iurcy states that the cut-leaved alder was 

 first found by Trochercau de la Berliere, 

 and planted" bv 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, all Europe. 

 t A.g. 4 qiicrcifulia Willd., 1. c, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — Leaves sinu- 

 ated, with the lobes obtuse. 



5 A. ^. 5 o.vwcant/iafd/ia ; A. oxvacanthcefolia J.odd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; and 



omfg. 1539.— Leaves sinuatcd and lobcd; smaller than those of the 

 preceding variety, and somewhat resembling those of the common 

 hawthorn. 

 1 A. g. 6 macrocdipa ; A. macrocarpa Lodd. Cat., 1836 ; has the leaves 

 and fruit rather larger than those of the species, and is also of more 

 vigorous growth. 

 3E k.g.l folds varicgatii Hort. has the leaves variegated. 

 Other Varictic;. There are some other names applied to plants in the col- 

 lection of Messrs. Loddigcs, which, we think, can only be considered as 

 varieties of A. glutino.sa; 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 arc, A. nigra, A. rubra, A 

 vlicdta, and A. unduhita. 'A. riibra is said to be a native of the Island of 

 Silcha. {Annal. des Scicn. Nat., 3. p. 237.) Some of the sorts treated as 



