Ulmus.] ULMACE^. 453 



glandular beneath with a few hairs in the axils, branches bright 

 brown smooth wiry weeping, fruit obovate naked deeply cloven." 

 —Lind. Syn. p. 336. E. B. t. 8348. U. suberosa, Ehrh., y. 

 leevis, Br. Fl. p. 376. 



a. Leaves lanceolate, smooth and shining above, quite glabrous beneath. 



/3. Branches somewhat erect; leaves ov.ito-lanceolate, evenly downy beneath, 

 pubescent but not rough above, and somewhat shining. 



y. Leaves large, remarkably smooth and shining ; branches drooping, y. lati- 

 folia, Bab. Man. p. 1H6 ? 



In woods, but not common. /^. March, April. Tj. 



a. A large tree close to the entrance (from Brading) of Centurion's copse. 



0. In Bloodstone copse, near Ashey farm, plentifully. 



y. In the yard of Apse farm, near ShanUin, a noble elm overhanging the pond. 



A tree resembling U. montana, of which there seems every reason for supposing 

 it to be a variety only, as the distinguishing characters are very evanescent. Bark of 

 the smaller limbs and branches smooth and even, the latter always, I think, more 

 minutely ramified. Tufts of flowers, as also the flowers themselves, smaller and 

 redder than in U. montana, the twigs on which tbey grow bright reddish brown 

 and quite smooth. Bracts broad, while and fringed. Pedicels assuredly shorter 

 thau either in U. montana or U. suberosa or almost subsessile, but there is no 

 absolute certainty in this respect. Perianth but slightly hairy (at least in my 

 specimens of o.), tapering gradually into the pedicel, which is thus apparently 

 abbreviated (the perianth in U. suberosa is shorter and more abrupt). Stamens 

 mostly 6, occasionally with an hexandrous flower intermixed. Styles small, dark 

 crimson, not much curved. 



In /3. the very smooth whitish brown branches have an upright mode of growth, 

 and the leaves, though still lanceolate, are broader, and approach nearer in out- 

 line to those of U. montana. In the present variety the seed is oblong, consider- 

 ably attenuated at the base, much smaller than in U. montana, cloven about half 

 way down to the seed, and on longer peduncles. 



y. is less remarkable for height or thickness of trunk, though both are very con- 

 siderable, than for its picturesque form, the great spread of its fine weeping boughs, 

 and its handsome foliage. It appears to be intermediate between U. montana and 

 U. glabra, and I have no doubt is the U. glabra y. latifolia of Lindl. Syn. p. 227. 

 The fruit is smaller thau in U. montana, and cloven almost to the seed, the cuti- 

 cle investing which is prettily tinged with red. Whether the tree is planted or 

 wild at Apse, I know not. 



3. U. montana, Sm. Broad-leaved Elm. Wych Elm. Wych 

 Hazel. Leaves obovato-cuspidate doubly and coarsely serrated 

 wedge-shaped and more or less unequal at the base scabrous 

 above downy beneath, branches smooth, fruit obovate glabrous 

 slightly cloven not ciliated. Sm. E. Fl. ii. p. S3. Lind. Syn. p. 

 227. E. B. xxvii. t. 1887. Loud. Arh. Brit. Fl. Dan. t. 633. 

 Guimp. und Hayne, Abbild. der Deutsch. Holtzarten. i. 37, t. 27 

 (optima). U. campestris, L. : Br. Fl. p. 376. 



In woods and hedgerows. Fl. March, April. Fr. May. Tj . 



E. Med. — In several parts of Quarr copse, frequent, and where some of the 

 trees are of considerable size. Bocky wood at East-end. Common in Cowpit 

 clifi' and Hatchet-close woods, near Shanklin. 



W.Med. — In the little wood (Starknet copse) where Tilia parvifolia grows, 

 near Yarmouth. In Westridge copse, near Sborwell, 1845. 



A handsome tall tree, with wide spreading branches of a grayish or reddish 

 ash-colour, the ultimate divisions downy, and much less twiggy thau in U. sube- 

 rosa or U. campestris ; nor is this species, like them, so much disposed to send up 

 suckers or stools from the root, or bundles of short slender shoots from the trunk 



