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broad nearly cordate obliqual, petiols and 

 nerves pubescent^ pedicels subequal to petiols, 

 a small crooked shrub 3 or 4 feet high growing 

 on the downs of the sea shores from Long Is- 

 land to Chesapeak. It blossoms in May, the 

 branches are cinereous and slightly dotted, 

 leaves small uncial. Very near to the next, 

 but distinct by locality and acuminate rough 

 leaves. 



562. Celtis pumila Raf. C, occid var. pu- 

 mila Mg. and some others, but not Pursh nor 

 his copists. — Shrubby, procumbent, branchlets 

 slender terete subtomentose, leaves thin ovate 

 acute with large equal serratures, base trun- 

 cate hardly obliqual trinervate both sides near- 

 ly smooth, petiols and nerves hardly pubescent 

 — in the Alleghany Mts. from Pennsylvania to 

 Virginia. A small low shrub only 2 feet high 

 or long. Leaves hardly over one inch, hardly 

 acuminate rather acute, very thin and green, 

 with very large teeth. This is marked in Col- 

 lins Herb, as the real pumila var of Muhlen- 

 berg, but it appears that all our 6 shrubby sp. 

 must have been blended under this name ; I 

 shall now distinguish them properly although 

 the synonyms are difficult to fix, owing to all 

 copying Pursh rather than describe what they 

 saw. The large teeth and truncate base will 

 distinguish this from all others besides the pro- 

 cumbent stem. 



563. Celtis tenuifolia Raf (or parvifolia) 

 C. pumila Pursh, T. B. &c. C. occid. var. 

 tenuif Lam. Pers. Nuttal ? &c — shrubby erect 

 branches divaricate, branchlets angular smooth 

 leaves uniform ovate acuminate, serrulate in 

 the middle, base acute obliqual unequal entire 

 trinervate, both sides smooth, pedicels axillary 



