L. ULMACEiE 



I. ELM SEEIES. 



In this extensive family, each series of which, with many authors, 

 constitutes a distinct family, we shall study first the Elms^ (fig. 89- 



Ulmm campestris. 



Fig. 91. Flower {\). 



Fig. 89. Foliaceous brancli (-1). 



Fig. 92. Long. sect, of flower. 



94) the flowers of which are hermaphrodite or polygamous. On its 

 depressed or slightly concave receptacle is observed a gamosepalous 

 calyx, often subcampanulate, and with five divisions more or less 



i Vlmus. T., Inst. 601, t. 372.— L. Gen. n. 239. 

 — Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 377.— J. Gen. 408.— 

 G^RTN. Fruct. i. 224, t. 49.— Pom. Diet. iv. 

 609 ; Suppl. iv. 187.— Lamk. III. 1. 185.— Turp. 

 Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 282.— Nees, Gen. ii. 34.— 

 Spach, Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 3.59 ; Suit a 



Biiffon, xi. 99.— Endl. Gen. n. 1850 ; Suppl. ii. 

 29 ; iv. p. ii. 33.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 167.— Pl. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 259 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 154. — Microptelea Spach, Ann. Sc.Nat.loc. 

 cit. 358 ; Suit, a Buffon^ xi. 113.— Endl, Gen. 

 n. 1849 2. 



