L. ULMACE^. 



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 eampestris. 



Fig. 91. Flower (a). 



Fig. 89. Foliaceous trancli (4). 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 



' mmm. T., Inst. 601, t. 372.— L. Gm. n. 239. 

 — Adaus. Fdm. dea PI. ii. 377.— J. Gen. 408.— 

 GjEKTn. Fruct. i. 224, t. 49.— PoiR. Diet. iv. 

 609 ; Suppl. iv. 187.— Lamk. Ill.i. 185.— Tukp. 

 Diet. Se. Nat. Atl. t. 282.— Nbes, Gen. ii. 34.— 

 SpAOH, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 359 ; Suit d 



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

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

 in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, x. 259 > DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 164. — Microptelea Spach, Ann. Sc.Nat.loe. 

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

 a. 18492. 



