98 BEWICK'S WREN. 



The Iron-wood Tree, or Wahoo. 



Ulmus alata, Pursh. Flor. Amer. vol. i. p. 200. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de I'Amer. 

 Sept. vol. vi. p. 275. PL 5 Pentandria Digynia, Linn. AmentacEjE, 7m«s. 



Twigs winged on two opposite sides with a corky substance ; leaves 

 oblongo-oval, acute, nearly equal at the base ; fruit downy and ciliated. 

 This species of Elm occurs only in the Southern States, where it grows 

 by the sides of rivers and in marshes. It attains a height of from thirty 

 to forty feet. 



