Ulmus america?ia, 
THE AMERICAN ELM. 
Synonymes. 
Ulmus americana, 
Orme d'Amerique, Orme parasol, 
Amerikanische Ulme, 
Ulmo americano, 
American White Elm, Canadian Elm, 
White Elm, Rock Elm, 
' Linnjeus, Species Plantarum. 
[ Michaux, North American Sylva. 
Loudon, Arboretum Bntannicum. 
France. 
Germany. 
Italy. 
Britain. 
Anglo-America. 
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Specific Characters. Leaves with their disks unequal at the base, 4-5 inches long, inclusive of a long 
acuminate point, from 2-2 inches broad, serrate, and mostly doubly so ; the axus of the veins nndef- 
neath joined by a membrane ; petioles from 1-1* inches in length, and clothed with short hairs 
i lowers efiuse, with the peduncles short and glabrous. Stamens 58. Samara fringed at the ede> 
with hairs ovate, acute. Young branches brown, and covered with fine, short hairs Adavt,,/ 
Willdenow's Enum. Plant. r ' J 
Description. 
^HE Ulmus 
americana, 
when stan d- 
H ing in the 
forest, is a lofty tree, with a remarka- 
bly clean, straight, round trunk, with 
a small, much contorted head; but, in 
a clearing, where it grows in an insu- 
lated manner, receiving a full supply of 
light and air, it appears in all its ma- 
jesty, towering to an elevation of eighty 
or one hundred feet, with a stem from 
four to six feet in diameter, which, at 
ten or twenty feet above its base, usually ramifies into three or more primary 
limbs, that continue gradually spreading outward and upwards to a greal length, 
dividing and sub-dividing into many smaller ramifications, and diffusing, on all 
sides, numerous long, flexible, and pendulous branchlcts, bending into regular, fes- 
toons, and giving to the tree a broad and somewhat flat-topped summit, of regu 
lar proportions and admirable beauty. When growing in the last-named situa- 
tion, this tree is often marked by two or more small branches, lour or li\' feel 
in length, proceeding from near the first ramification, and descending along the 
trunk; and the larger branches or limbs arc sometimes covered with little ragged 
twigs, as if clothed with tufts of hair. The bark of the trunk is tender, deeply- 
furrowed, and almost white. The leaves, which are four or five inches lone, are 
alternate, unequal at the base, oval-acuminate, generally doubly denticulated, 
with regular and prominent ribs, rough, and ol an almost glossy deep-green aboi 
and pale and downy beneath. The flowers, which appear m March, April, or May, 
before the leaves, are very small, of a purplish colour, supported by short, slen- 
