SLIPPERY ELM; RED ELM (Ulmusfulva, Michx.). 60 to 70 

 feet. Fast-growing tree, with erect, spreading branches, 

 forming broad, open head. Twigs stout, rusty, downy, with 

 large, rusty buds. Bark brown, rough, scaly, tinged red, inner 

 layers mucilaginous, sweet. Wood heavy, hard, cross-grained, 

 durable, easy to split, used for posts, ties, sills, farm imple- 

 ments, and fuel. Leaves ovate-oblong, oblique at base, 

 abruptly pointed at apex, coarsely saw-toothed, with horny, 

 incurved teeth, roughened by fine, sharp tubercles, pointing 

 toward apex, pubescent, dark green, with pale, dcwny lining 

 and petiole; length o to 7 inches, width 2 to 3 inches. Flowers 

 perfect, small, in crowded, short-stemmed fascicles, greenish 

 with red anthers and stigmas, with silvery hairs throughout. 

 April. Fruit, May; rounded, hairy, except on rim which 

 forms the thin, elongated, netted-veined wing, hooked at apex. 

 Dist.: Stream borders, New Brunswick, Ontario to Dakota 

 and Nebraska; south to Florida and Texas. 



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