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LONG LEAVED NETTLE TREE. 
CELTIS longjfolia, foliis ovato-lanceolatis promisse acu- 
minatis integerrimis Isevigatis demum glabris basi rotun- 
datis obliquis subcuneatis, pedunculis fructiferis uni- 
floris, cortice sublxvi. 
Celtis occidentalis, (i. integrifolia, Nutt. Gen. Am., vol. 1. 
p. 202. (not of Lamarck.) 
This tree, growing to the height of 60 or 70 feet, in- 
habits the deep shady forests which border the Missis- 
sippi from St. Louis to the vicinity of the sea. Its even 
and not deeply cleft bark, in the absence of its aspiring 
summit, at once distinguishes this species from the 
Common Hack-Berry. Like all the rest of the genus, 
(confined within its proper limits,) the insignificant filmy 
flowers appear early in the spring, before the expansion 
of the leaves. The small branches are smooth and 
yellowish-brown. The leaves are smooth, of a thin 
consistence, and remarkable for the great length of their 
acuminated points, of an ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
form, subtended by deciduous stipules, and at first 
pubescent beneath, particularly along the large vessels 
or veins; at length almost absolutely smooth, at no time 
scabrous either above or beneath, and wholly entire on 
the margin. The length is about from 3 to 3J inches 
by 1 to l£ wide. The obliquity of the base varies ac- 
cording to the position of the leaf on the branch; those 
first developed are nearly equal at base, and of a lan- 
ceolate form; the later ones are larger, wider, and more 
oblique. The flowers are as usual; the males about 3 
together towards the base of the branch, the females 
