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NOTE C. 



THE WYCH-ELM, ( Ulmus Montana,) p. 46. 



The following account of the wych-elm is given by Mr. 

 Downing in his " Landscape Gardening : " 



" The Scotch, or wych-elm, (ulmus montana.~) This is a 

 tree of lower stature than the common European elm, its 

 average height being about forty feet. The leaves are 

 broad, rough, pointed, and the branches extend more 

 horizontally, drooping at the extremities. The bark on 

 the branches is comparatively smooth. It is a grand tree, 

 * the head is so finely massed, and yet so well broken, as to 

 render it one of the noblest of park trees ; and where it 

 grows wild amid the rocky scenery of its native Scotland, 

 there is no tree which assumes so great, or so pleasing a 

 variety of character.' In general appearance the Scotch 

 elm considerably resembles our white elm. Its most 

 ornamental varieties are the spiry-topped elm, (17. m. 

 fastigiata,) with singularly twisted leaves, and a very up- 

 right growth ; the weeping Scotch elm, (u. m. pendula,) a 

 very remarkable variety, the branches of which droop in 

 a fan-like manner; and the smooth-leaved Scotch elm, (. 

 m. glabra.') 



NOTE D. 



THE CARPENTER BEE, (Megachile Centuncularis,) p. 53. 

 The term carpenter bee is now usually confined, in Eng- 

 land, to those insects of the bee tribe which chisel out or 

 rasp their nests in posts, or palings, &c. Their cells 

 " consist of a tunnel excavated in the wood, and divided 

 by thin partitions of clay into five or six compartments, 

 each with its supply of pollen for the single inhabitant 

 who is to emerge from the egg deposited therein." 



