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ARB0KE1TM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Description, aV. Trees, rarely exceeding the middle size; and some so 

 low as to be considered shrubs, With the exception of A. glutindsa lacini- 

 Bta and ./. eorditolia, the species are not very ornamental ; nor is the timber 

 of great value, except for the charcoal wliich may be made from it. All 

 the species prefer a moist soil, or one in the vicinity of water. A. glutindsa 

 ripens seeds freely, as do most of the other sorts; but all the latter are 

 generally propagated by layers. The only truly distinct species appear to ns 

 to be, ./. glutindsa, A. cordifolia, A. incana, A. oblongata, and A. viridis; 

 which last seems an intermediate species, or connecting fink, between A'imis 

 and />Ytula. 



I 1. A. glutinous A Gcrrtn. The glutinous, or common, Alder. 



Identification. Gaertn., 8. p. 54. ; '."Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 334. ; Comp., ed. 4., p. 155. ; Hook Lond 



t 59., Scot, 271. ; Hoss. Anleit, 186. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 183(5. ' > 



S jy owy wpj . Bttulus W'lnus 1. in. Sp. PI., 1394. a, Fl. Br., 1013., Eng. Bot., 21. t 1508 • B emar 



finkU Khrh. Arb.,9.; A'Ums Baii Si/n., 442.; Aune, Fr. ; gemeine Else, or Elser or schwartz 

 Irle, Ger'i Klsenboom, Dutch ; Alno, or Ontano, Ital. ; Aliso, or Alamo niero Svan 

 Bw mmm g*. Eng. Bot., t. 1508. : Hunt. Evel. Syl.,240. f. ; Ger. Emac, 1477. f • Lob Ic' 2 191 f • 

 Loes. Pruss., t. 1. ; Dalech. Hist, 97. f. ; our fig. 1540. ; and the plate of this species'in'our'last 

 \ olume. 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaves roundish, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated, glutinous, 

 rather abrupt ; downy at the branching of the veins beneath. (Eng. Fl., iv! 

 p. 131.) A tree, from 30 ft. to 60 ft. high ; a native of Europe, from Lapland 

 to Gibraltar; and of Asia, from the White Sea to Mount Caucasus* and 

 also, of the north of Africa; flowering, in Britain, in March and April. 

 Varieties, 



It A. g. 2 emargindta Willd. Baum., p. 19., 

 has the leaves nearly round, wedge- 

 shaped, and edged with light green. 

 *t A. g. 3 lacinidta Ait. Willd., 1. c., Lodd. 

 Cat., ed. 1830; A. g. incisa Hort. ; our 

 Jtg.1538,, and the plate of a fine tree at 

 Syon. in our last volume; has the leaves 

 oblong and pinnatifid, with the lobes 

 acute. Wild in the north of France, 

 particularly in Normandy, and in the 

 woods of Montmorency, near Paris. 

 (N. Du Ham.) Thouin, in the year 

 1819, in the Nouveau Cours (V Agricul- 

 ture, states that the cut-leaved alder was 

 first found by Trochereau de la Berliere, 

 and planted by him in his garden near 

 St. Germain, where the stool still remains from which all the nurseries 

 of Paris have been supplied with plants, and, probably, all Europe. 

 1 A. g. 4 qucrcifblia Willd., I. c., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — Leaves sinu- 



ated, with the lobes obtuse. 

 3f A. g. 5 oxyacantJuEfolia ; A. oxyacanthaefolia Lodd. Cat.,ed. 1836; and 

 our Jig. 1539. — Leaves sinuated and lobed; smaller than those of the 

 preceding variety, and somewhat resembling those of the common 

 hawthorn. 

 1 A. g. 6 moeroc&rpa ; A. macrocarpa Lodd. Cat., 1836; has the leaves 

 and fruit rather larger than those of the species, and is also of more 

 vigorous growth. 

 1 A.g. 7 fo/ii.s variegdtis Hort. has the leaves variegated. 

 Othei Varieties. There are some other names applied to plants in the col- 

 lection of Messrs. Loddiges, which, we think, can only be considered as 

 varieties of A. »lutinosa; or, perhaps, of A. incana; but the plants are so 

 !!,that we are unable to determine whether they are sufficiently distinct 

 to be worth recording. Among these names are, A. nigra, A. rubra, A. 

 pMedfa, and A. undulata. A. rubra is said to be a native of the Island of 

 ha, ( Anna l. dei Sam. AV//., .'{. p. 237.) Some of the sorts treated as 



