SMALL LEAVED NETTLE TREE. 133 
cent leaves and twigs.) Most of these species have a tough fibrous 
bark of the nature of hemp. 
SMALL LEAVED NETTLE TREE. 
CELTIS reticulata, foliis brevibus , lato-cordatis , subcoria- 
ceis , vix et irregulariter serratis acutis basi obliquis sea - 
bris, subtus subglabris venis elevatis reticulatis , peduncu- 
lis fructiferis unifloris. 
Celtis reticulata . Torrey, in Annals of Lyceum, N. Y., vol. 
2. p. 247. 
This low growing species of Nettle tree was dis- 
covered by Dr. James near the base of the Rocky 
Mountains; I likewise met with it in the same moun- 
tain range, by small streams, and also along the borders 
of the Oregon, towards the Blue Mountains, particularly 
along the banks of the Brulee, a small stream falling 
into that river. It does not, in the situations where we 
observed it, become a timber tree, but rather a tall 
shrub, full of slender, and, at length, smooth branches. 
The leaves become thick and rigid, and are about an 
inch and a half long, by less than an inch wide, acute, 
but scarcely acuminate, with a few irregular serratures 
towards the point of the leaf, though a number of the 
leaves may be observed possessing no serratures at all; 
the upper surface is shining and scabrous, beneath the 
leaves are pubescent along the nerves, though at length 
nearly quite smooth; the petioles are 1 or 2 lines long 
and pubescent; the base of the leaf is very oblique, 
rounded and slightly sinuated. The drupe is globose, 
solitary, brownish-yellow, on a short peduncle. Of the 
wood of this species nothing is yet known. 
Plate XXXIX. 
A branch of the natural size. 
