NOTES ON SYNONYMY IN ULMUS 131 
specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit. indicates his U. campestris to have 
glabra form 
“U. campestris. Common Elm. Leaves doubly serrated, 
rough, unequal at the base. Flowers nearly sessile, ae ae 
with four stamens. Fruit oblong naked. The leaves com rth 
as the fruit ripens, and are alternate on short stalks, ‘eat 
inclining to rhomboid . rou h on both sides, from one to three 
inches long.’ —Smith. On contr rasting this with his description 
of U. glabra, it will be apparent that Smith had in his mind a 
tetrandrous, broad and rough-leaved variety of U. glabra Miller. 
One is tempted, from his description of the leaves, to assume that 
he is speaking of U. a Stokes; but this is precluded by 
his description of the fruit; besides, Smith’s U. suberosa is 
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pestris. Narrow-leaved English Elm. Leaves rhom- 
boid-ovate acuminate, wedge-shaped and oblique at base, always 
scabrous above, doubly and irregularly serrated, downy beneath, 
serratures incurved. Branches wiry, sighs y corky. Fruit ob- 
long, eeply cloven, naked. E. B., 1 —Lindley. 
Lindley’s description of the leaves in his U. campestris might 
suggest a different plant from Smith’s; but his reference to the 
E. B. figure precludes doubt. His reference to suberosity in his 
plant ate that he might include var. swherosa Moench. 
er’s other names, sativa and minor, appear to refer to forms 
of the same polymorphous tree. Mznor has sme dealt with in my 
paper; the description of sativa is as follows:— Foliis ovatis 
acuminatis duplicato serratis, basi inequallbtis: Ulmus minor 
folio angusto scabro of Ge ts a tiva, 
Elm, which is far from being a right appellation, for it is not a 
native of England, and is only found growing near London, or in 
plantations where the young trees were procured from the neigh- 
bourhood of London. 
It is likely that the name of glabra may have contributed by 
the omer at of its connotation to confuse the synon ymy, 
“glabrous” being often used as meaning “smooth,” whereas it 
rightly iduities “hairless,” levis being smooth, and scabra rough, 
to the touch. 
U. glabra of Hudson, Flor. Ang. (1762) is clearly a combina- 
tion. He describes two varieties (a) “ U. folio latissimo scabro 
being shown by Buddle’s specimen in the Sloane Herb. (to which 
he refers) to be U. scabra Miller, (b) “ U. folio glabro”’ being again 
shown, by his er eszort to the same herbarium, to be U. glabra 
Miller. 
rosa Moench. Itis assumed in my paper that prasrene! s 
and Bhrhart’ s description is of the plant placed as var. s 
under glabra Miller. Though this a is no doubt lociaded, 3 it 
might be hard to prove that Sth oat berets plant 10. be 
be excluded. e only su 
of Europe 
reasonably excluded from = being 
U. suberosa of Smith, , and pe ‘British cam 
