THIN LEAVED NETTLE TREE. 
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solitary and axillary, coming out with the opening 
leaves. The stamens are from 5 to 7. The margin of 
the calyx segments is pubescent, but smooth, narrower 
and more deeply divided in C. occidentalis, to which this 
species bears a close affinity. The berry is of a brown- 
ish-yellow, on a short peduncle. 
Plate XL. 
A branch of the natural size. 
THIN LEAVED NETTLE TREE. 
CELTIS tenuifolia, foliis lato-ovatis acuminatis subsequa- 
liter serratis basi inxqualibus subcordatis utrinque gla- 
briusculis junioribus pubescentibus, calycibus laciniis 
cucullatis erosis ciliatis, fructibus solitariis . — Nutt. Gen. 
Amer. 1. p. 202. 
Celtis occidentalis , ft ? tenuifolia. Lam. Encyc. Bot.,.pp. 137, 
138. Persoon, Synops. 1. p. 292. 
Celtis occidentalis. Darlington, Flora Cestrica, p. 180. 
Celtis pumila. Pursh, Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 200 and 201. 
This species, nearly allied to C. occidentalis , is often 
rather a shrub than a tree. Near Harper’s Ferry, in 
Virginia, on the summits of the neighbouring mountains 
of the Blue Ridge, it flowers at the height of two feet, 
with low spreading branches. In other situations it be- 
comes a tree, as in the vicinity of Bethlehem, in Penn- 
sylvania, and other places in that state. It is best dis- 
tinguished by its broad, rather short, and smooth leaves 
when adult, and which are not scabrous on the upper 
surface: the margin is now and then without serra- 
tures, their form is cordate-ovate, very little acuminated. 
