Ulmus 1867 



A sub-variety with yellowish foliage, known as var. fastigiata aurea, is occa- 

 sionally seen in botanic gardens. A tree at Kew, 20 ft. high, which was obtained 

 from Lee in 1879, is narrowly pyramidal and not strictly fastigiate in habit. 



3. Var. cinerea, Lavallee, Arb. Segrez. 237 (1877). 



Ulmus cinerea, Planchon, in De Candolle, Prod. xvii. 160 (1873). 



Branches stunted and tortuous, the upper ascending, the lower more or less 

 pendulous. Leaves crowded and similar to those of var. fastigiata, from which var. 

 cinerea appears to differ only in not being fastigiate in habit. 



This is represented at Kew by a tree about 25 ft. high, of unknown origin. 

 Elwes found a small tree of it in the late Mrs. Robb's garden at Liphook. 



4. Var. pendula, Loudon, op. cit. 1398. 



Var. horizontalis} Petzold and Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 564 (1864). 

 Ulmus pendula, Loddiges, Cat. 1836. 

 Ulmus horizontalis, Loudon, op. cit. 1398. 



Branches horizontally spreading, branchlets more or less pendulous. This is the 

 common weeping wych elm, which is much planted as an ornamental small tree, and is 

 usually grafted high on a stock of the common species. It occasionally attains 30 ft. 

 in height, and bears flowers and fruit abundantly every year. Booth states 2 that 

 this variety was found in a bed of seedlings in the Perth nursery about 18 16. He 

 purchased the plant, from which all the stock, both in England and on the Continent, 

 originated. A fine tree in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden (Plate 393) is grafted at 

 10 ft. from the ground, and grows to a height of about 30 ft., with a circumference 

 of branches of 54 paces. 



5. Var. pendula Camperdowni, Hort. 



Branches and branchlets pendulous, forming a globose head, in marked contrast 

 to the flat stiff-looking crown of var. pendula, Loudon. The original plant grew at 

 Camperdown House, near Dundee; and, according to Mr. Mitchell, of Messrs. R. B. 

 Laird and Sons, Edinburgh, was of considerable age thirty years ago, and quite 

 prostrate in habit, creeping along the ground amongst other elms. There are good 

 specimens of both these weeping elms in the Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh ; and 

 the difference in habit is well shown in a photograph by Mr. A. D. Richardson, 

 reproduced in Gard. Chron. 1. 221, fig. 105 (191 1). 



6. Var. crispa, Loudon, op. cit. 1399. 



Ulmus crispa, Willdenow, Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. 295 (1809). 

 Ulmus urticcefolia, Audibert, Cat. Hort. Tonn. 23 (1817). 



Leaves very narrow, linear to oblanceolate, wrinkled, laciniate, with numerous 

 incised curved teeth. This variety usually forms a small tree with pendulous 

 branches. There is a fine specimen, about 25 ft. high, at Howden and Company's 

 nursery, Inverness, and smaller ones at Kew, Revesby, and elsewhere. 



1 Var. horizontalis is the name generally used in continental nurseries for the common form of the weeping wych elm 

 (var. pendula, Loudon) ; while their var. pendula is either identical with or very similar to U. pendula Camperdowni. 

 a In Loudon, Gard. Mag. 1843, p. 442. 



