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There is a very fine specimen in Mr. Pierce s 

 arboretum, measuring six feet seven inches 

 in circumference, and is probably ninety feet 

 high. The Cornish elm, U. stricta of Lindley, 

 now considered a variety of this, is also in 

 our collections. 



3. II. FULVA, Michaux. Leaves scabrous 

 above. Buds clothed with a brown down. 

 Flowers in dense bundles. Fruit nearly 

 round, naked on the margin. Slippery 

 elm. 



A handsome tree, with magnificent foliage, 

 but without the ample proportions which 

 characterize the other species. It seldom 

 exceeds fifty feet high, and has often a pendu 

 lous appearance. It has the advantage of 

 thriving in a low wet soil, where the other 

 kinds will not. The bark is frequently corky. 

 The Bartram specimen is fifty feet high and 

 five and a half feet in circumference, but is 

 nearly dead, owing to the bark having been 

 almost entirely stolen off for medicinal pur 

 poses. 



4. U. GLABRA, Miller. Leaves ovate, lan 

 ceolate, acuminate, doubly serrate, obliquely 



