68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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above Pies on midrib and secondary veins beneath, the hairs 
often glandular when young, sit clustered hair at the axils of the 
veins, as in all the species ; a aaa petioles, and young twigs hairy. 
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ofa present two to five false points in addition to the main point, 
especially on the lower branches of the tree, or on vigorous shoots 
where a stump has been cut—an arrangement not found in any of 
our other species. Flowers and fertile seeds are produced on quite 
young oes and on every part of them. 
and abundant throughout Britain, especially in the 
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Many named varieties of the Wych Elm are cultivated in 
RE: gardens, but Ihave failed to learn their distinctive 
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Var eer Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. 3, viii. 142 (18 68). 
‘“‘ Leaves shining and glabrous above. Branches without corky 
Has all the essential characters of U. montana.” 
Samara rounder at the point than in the type; notch distinct, 
its Sisal pe acute, reaching more than one-fifth way to seed 
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a never seen any Elm answering to Syme’s description, 
growing either spontaneously or planted, except in Kew Garden 
The description of the samara is taken from a Kew tree labelled 
U. (scabra A raths 
2. Ulmus 
U. (montana) See 2 vegeta Loudon, Arboretum, iii. 1404 
Henig Elm 
aves large, broadly oval, acute or slightly acuminate, coarsely 
and doubly crenate; upper surface epilose, slightly scabrous ; 
midrib and secondary veins with scattered hair o banal peti ioles 
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Large tree, 60 to 70 ft., with conspicuous bole and lon, 
straight, ascending branches, ultimate divisions at length drooping. 
Bark smooth, light-coloured ; suckers 
sembles U. glabra in size and shape ‘of leaf, but ae 
somewhat in habit, and essentially in the samara and in 
presence of suckers. a leaves of the suckers are highly aotcenae 
on the tree they are always less scabrous than in U. scabra, and 
occasionally nearly or quite smooth, 
