THE HOP HOKNBEAM. 67 



who have examined it in their botanical rambles. It is a 

 small tree, that affects the habit of the elm in its general 

 appearance, of the birch in its inflorescence, and of the 

 beech in the upward tendency of its small branches. It 

 is so much like the elm in the style of its foliage, in the 

 fine division and length of its slender spray, and in the 

 color and appearance of its bark, that it might easily be 

 mistaken for a small elm, without any of its drooping 

 habit. It does not, like the elm, however, break into 

 any eccentric modes of growth. A striking peculiarity 

 of this tree is the multitude of hop-like capsular heads 

 that contain the seeds. 



