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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. U. 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 



