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you will see little tufts of small brown hairs gathered 

 in the axils of the larger leaf-veins. The leaves of 

 the Crimean linden are rather tough and leathery, 

 and are obliquely truncate (cut across) at the base. 

 The tree gets its botanical specific name, dasysiyla, 

 from its flowers, whose pistils are densely tomentose 

 or hairy (Greek, dasos), about the base of the rather 

 pyramidal style. The style, speaking technically, is 

 that part of the pistil which joins the ovary with the 

 stigma. The stigma is the part of the pistil which 

 receives the pollen, and the ovary is that part of the 

 pistil which contains the embryonic seeds. The fruit 

 of the Crimean linden is very distinctly five-angled, 

 and is obovoid in shape. 



TJlmus racemosa. (American Cork Elm. Rock Elm. 

 No. 12.) Pretty well back from Walk (the northerly 

 one from the West Ninety-sixth Street Gate), and 

 near the border of Transverse Road No. 4, you will 

 find this slim specimen of our native cork elm. You 

 can pick it out easily by the very distinct corky 

 ridges on its branches. It is a small-sized tree, with 

 a trunk not over a few inches thick, and has a lean 

 and spindling look. Its leaves are smooth, hard and 

 thick, dark green on the uppersides, but pale green 

 below. In March or April, dancing little raceme- 

 like (whence the name of the tree) clusters of tiny 

 flowers float out upon the branches. Fairy sights 

 they are, so tenderly delicate, it seems the sharp 

 winds must surely tear them from their abiding 

 places. How lovely they are! The tiny little calyx 

 of each flower is bell-shaped. There is no corolla, 



