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AIIBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Variety. Brotero, in his Flora Lusitanica, mentions a variety with variegated 

 leaves, that was found wild in Portugal. 



The trse grows rapidly, more especially when once established, and after- 

 v/ards cut down ; sometimes producing shoots, in the climate of London, 

 G or 8 feet in length. It bears pruning remarkably well, at every age. Its 

 leaves are very seldom touched by insects, either on the Continent or in 

 England ; and the t'ossus Ligniperda and Scolytus destructor, which are so 

 injurious to the timber of many other trees, never touch either that of Celtis, 

 that of Planer Richard/, or that of Pyrus jSorbus. 



t 2. C. (a.) cauca'sica Wilkl. The Caucasian Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 994. ; Poiret in Encycl. Suppl., 3. p. 

 688. ; RcEMi. et Schult Syst. Veg., 6. p. 305. 



Engraving. Our fig. 1407. from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker's her- 

 barium . 



Spec. Char., c^-c. Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrate with 

 large teeth, a little narrowed at the base and almost equal 

 there ; above, deep green ; beneath, pale yellowish ; and 

 the veins, when seen under a lens, a little hairy. (Wi/ld.) 

 A tree. Caucasus. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced 

 in ? 1800. Flowers greenish; June. Fruit globose, reddish. 



This is very closely akin to C. australis ; but it differs 

 in its leaves being more ovate, having the acuminate part 

 shorter, and being glabrous. 



2 Si 3. C. Tournefo'et// L 



1-107. C. (a.) caucHSica. 



am. Tournefort's Celtis, or Kettle Tree. 



Identification. Lam. Encycl., 4. p. 132. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 994. ; N. Du Ham., 2. p. SS. 

 Synonymes. C. orientalis minor, foliis minoribus et crassioribus, fructu flavo, Tourn. Cor. 42. ; C- 

 orientalis Mill. Dictj Xo. 3., but, according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, not of Lin., which is 



MOS. C. Toumefdrtri. 



considered a half-hardy plant in Britain ; Micocoulier du Levant, Micocoulier d'Orient, Fr. ; 

 Morgenlandlscher Ziingelbaum, Ger. 

 Engravings. Tourn. Itin , t. 41. ; the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii. ; and our 



fig. 1408. 



