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and it probably exists farther to the south and east, as it seems similar to an elm 1 

 found by Baldacci in mountain woods near Spizza in the extreme south of 

 Dalmatia. 



Var. australis is occasionally planted in botanic gardens in France, as at 

 Le Mans and Bordeaux ; but it seems rare in cultivation. I refer to this variety 

 the elms in the avenue of the Cours-la-Reine, Rouen, which is said to have been 

 planted in 1649 by the Duke de Longueville. The best of these trees still 

 remaining were about 90 ft. by 9 ft. in 191 2. 



2. Var. variegata, Dippel, Laubkolzkunde, ii. 25 (1892). 



Ulmus campestris, var. foliis variegatis, Loddiges, Cat. 1836, ex Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 

 1376 (1838). 



Leaves striped and spotted with white. This is a very ornamental tree, no 

 doubt of English origin, 2 as it agrees with the English elm in all its essential 

 characters. So far as I know it never produces fruit. There are two good trees 

 about 50 ft. high at Kew. A fine specimen at Moor Park, Rickmansworth, which 

 was 65 ft. by 7^ ft. in 1910, produces suckers with variegated leaves. Elwes saw, in 

 1909, a tree 83 ft. by "]\ ft. at Campsea Ashe in Suffolk, also with variegated suckers. 

 These are said to lose their colour if transplanted. Another at Kenwood, without 

 suckers, was 75 ft. by 7 ft. 2 in. in 1909. 



U. picturata, Cripps, ex Simon- Louis, Cat. 1880, p. 66, of which there is a small 

 tree at Kew, does not appear to differ much from the preceding variety ; but has 

 larger leaves. 



3. Var. Van Houttei, Schneider, Laubkolzkunde, i. 220 (1904). 



Leaves scabrous above and beneath, tinged with yellow. Branchlets pubescent 

 with long hairs. 3 The variety, 4 which is known in catalogues as U. campestris, "Louis 

 van Houtte," is represented at Kew by several trees about 20 ft. high, obtained from 

 Waterer in 1894. 



4. Var. purpurea, Petzold and Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 558 (1864). 



Leaves 2 to 2\ in. long, tinged purple, often folded, irregularly serrate. This 

 is probably of hybrid origin, as it resembles U. montana in texture and roughness 

 of surface, but has slender twigs and small leaves. It is grown at Kew under the 

 name U. montana, var. purpurea. 



5. Var. purpurascens, Schneider, Laubkolzkunde, i. 220(1894). 



U. campestris myrtifolia purpurea, Louis de Smet, Cat. No. 10, p. 59 (1877). 



Leaves small, about an inch long, scabrous above, pubescent beneath, tinged 

 with a purple colour. Branchlets pubescent with long hairs. This is represented 

 at Kew by a grafted tree, about 20 ft. high, obtained from Waterer in 1885. 



1 Var. dalmatica, Baldacci, in Malpighia, v. 79 (1891). 



a Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxfordshire, 172 (1677), mentions a striped elm is Dorsetshire. 



3 In Card. Chron. xi. 368, fig. 77 (1887), an instance is given of the influence of scion upon stock, where this variety 

 was grafted on U. campestris with ordinary green leaves, and the stock subsequently produced a variegated shoot below 

 the graft. 



4 The origin of this elm is unknown ; but it may be the " yellow-leaved elm " referred to by Miller, Cat. Plant. 86 

 ('73)> an( l Gard. Vict. ed. 1, No. 8, as " Ulmus minor foliis fiavescenlibus." 



