Ulmus campestris, 
THE EUROPEAN OR FIELD ELM. 
Synonymes. 
Ulmus campestris, 
(Linnjeus, Species Plantamiu. 
Michaux, North American Sylva. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
Selbv, British Forest Trees. 
wriuc cuampeire, urme des champs, ) 
Orme blanc, Ormeau, Ormille, Arbre I France. 
a pauvre homme, \ 
Landlicher Ulmenbaum, Ulme, Eiister, Germany. 
Olmo, Olmo piramidale, Italy 
English Elm, Field Elm. Common Small- / 
leaved Elm, ] Britain. 
English Elm, European Elm, Anglo-America. 
Derivations The specific name campestris is derived from the Latin campus, a field ; havine reference to this tr =,. * r - 
ing in open fields and m hedges. Most of the European names have the same signification ZZZ ta?cal one S 
Engravings Michaux North American Sylva, pi. 129; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum iii fi 123S el 1239 and vii r.l 
230 et seq. ; Selby, British Forest Trees, pp. 104, 105 et 106 ; and the figures below. ' ' = ' a " d "'' P ' 
Specific Characters. Leaves doubly serrated, rough. Flowers nearly sessile, 4-cleft. Samara oblone 
deeply cloven, glabrous. Smith, English Flora. ouioug, 
Description. 
"Fruitful in leaves the Elm." 
Virgil. 
HE Ulmus campestris 
1= is of a tall, upright 
habit of growth, with 
a straight trunk, four 
or five feet in diameter, when fully grown, and 
attaining a height of from sixty to seventy 
feet, or upwards. The branches, which are J- 
rather slender, are densely clothed with small, Z^~ 
deep-green leaves, somewhat shining on the * 
upper surface, though rough to the touch. 
The leaves are broad in the middle, and con- 
tracted toward the ends ; being, like those of 
most other kinds of elm, unequal at the base, 
and doubly dentated, and having a strongly-marked midrib, with other lateral 
ribs, equally prominent, proceeding from it, on each side. Tiny unfold at 
Naples, in Italy, by the first of February; at Paris, in March: in England by 
the middle of April; and at New York early in May. Tiny fall at Paris, and at 
New York, in the beginning of November, and three <r four weeks later in Eng- 
land; but in Naples they often remain upon tin 1 trees until the end of the jrear 
The flowers, which put forth just before the leaves, vary in colour from a dull- 
purple to a dark-red; and are succeeded by oblong, deeply-cloven samara, con- 
taining each a seed, that ripens in a month after the appearance of the leaves. 
Varieties. The varieties of this species are very numerous, both in Britain 
and on the continent; and most of them have been selected by nurserymen from 
their seed-beds. As remarked at the commencement of tins genus, from the 
