LXIX. BETULA‘CER: BE’/TULA. 841 
songs B. nana Suecdrum Bromel. Chl. Goth. 11.; B. palastris pamila, &c., Cels. Act. Suec. 
5 Be 
Engravings. Am. Acad., \.t.1.; Eng. Bot., t. 2326. ; and our jig. 1532. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves orbicular, crenate, reticulated with 
veins beneath. A shrub, with numerous branches, slightly 
downy when young, and beset with numerous, little, 
round, firm, smooth, sharply crenated leaves, beautifully 
reticulated with veins, especially beneath; and furnished 
with short footstalks, having a pair of brown lanceolate 
stipules at their base. Catkins erect, stalked, cylindrical, 
obtuse ; the barren ones lateral, and the fertile ones ter- 
minal. Scales of the latter 3-lobed, 3-flowered, permanent. 
Stigmas red. (Smith.) A bushy deciduous shrub. Lapland, 
Sweden, Russia, and Scotland, in Europe, and Hudson’s 
Bay, and other parts of Canada, in America; on moun- 
tains, but almost always in boggy places. Height 2 ft. 
to 3ft.;in British gardens 6 ft. to 8ft. Catkins whitish : 
green; April and May. Fruit brown; ripe in October. 1532. B. nana. 
Variety. 
w» B. x. 2 stricta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, is somewhat more erect in habit 
than the species. 
2 6. B.(?.N.) GLANDULO'sA Miche. The glandular-dranched Birch. 
Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 180.; Pursh Fl. 
Amer. Sept., 2. p. 622. 
Engraving. Our jig. 1533. from a specimen in the British 
Museum. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches beset with glandular 
dots, glabrous. Leaves obovate, serrate, quite 
entire at the base, glabrous, almost sessile. 
Female catkins oblong; scales half 3-cleft. 
Seeds round, with narrow margins. (Willd.) A 
handsome little deciduous shrub. Canada, about 
Hudson’s Bay ; and on the borders of lakes on 
the high mountains of New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania. Height 2ft. Introduced ?. 
Corresponds in America with the B. nina of 
Europe, and probably only a variety of that spe- 
cies. Catkins whitish ; May. 
1533. B. (? n.) glanduldsa. 
Leaves large. Natives of North America. 
# 7. B. popuLiro iia Ait. The Poplar-leaved Birch. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 336.; Pursh FJ. Amer. Sept., vol. 2. p. 620.; Michx. N. 
Amer. Syl., vol. 2. p. 97. : “ : 
Synonymes. B. acuminata Ehrh. Beit. 6. p. 98.3; B. lénta Du Rot Harb. Baum. ed.1. p. 92. ; white 
Birch and Oldfield Birch, mer. : 
Engravings. Michx. N. Amer. Syl.,2. p.97.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., vol. 2. t. 71.; and our jig. 
1534. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves deltoid, much acuminzted, unequally serrated, quite 
smeoth. Scales of the strobiles having roundish side lobes. Petioles 
glabrous. (IWilld.) A tree, in every respect closely resembling JB. alba, 
but growing with less vigour, and not attaining so large a size as that spe- 
cies. Canada to Pennsylvania, in barren rocky woods. Introduced in 
1750. Flowers greenish white; April and May. 
Varieties. 
* B. p.2 lacinidta. B. laciniata Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836.— Leaves large, 
shining, and deeply cut. - 
* B. p.3 péndula. B. pendula Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836.— Spray drooping, 
like that of the weeping variety of the common birch. 
