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ULMUS 
becoming striate in the second, often hairy at first, usually pale brown and glabrous in the second 
year, suberous or not. Petioles about i cm. long, often hairy when young, usually glabrous at 
maturity. Laminae ovate or elliptical, usually very asymmetrical at the base, doubly serrate, 
acute to acuminate, terminal ones about 6 — 8 cm. long and 3 — 4 broad, often hairy when young, 
becoming very smooth and very shining above at maturity, sometimes microglandular ; unfolding 
later than in U. glabra , U. campestris , and most forms of U. glabra x nitens. Inflorescences or 
flower-clusters rather small. Outer scales of the flower-buds as long as or a little longer than 
broad, fringed on the upper margin with short hairs. Flowers opening from January to March, 
the first species to come into flower. Perianth pale green, tipped with pale pink ; segments 
4 — 5, usually 5, slightly hairy. Filaments protruding by about the length of the whole perianth. 
Stigmas just protruding from the perianth, very pale red in colour. Fruits oblong to obovate, 
about 1 - 5 — 1 ’8 cm. long and ro — 1*2 broad; May. Seed between the centre and the apical 
notch ; notch reaching down nearly to the seed-cavity. 
The two following varieties of U. nitens were made known to us by our collaborator, Mr E. W. Hunnybun. The 
first of them is the one he has figured for the present work (see Plates 90 — 93 ) ; and the second is the one figured 
by James Sowerby in the English Botany (t. 2248). It affords us very great pleasure to name these varieties after 
the two artists mentioned, one whose work is well known and justly admired, and the other whose work will, we 
venture to say, be similarly eulogised by botanists of future generations. 
(a) U. nitens var. hunnybuni var. nov. 
A taller and more handsome tree than var. sozverbyi. Branches longer, lower ones spreading 
at right angles, upper ones less tortuous. Laminae longer, even more asymmetrical at the base, 
more acuminate. Fruits rather larger, more markedly obovate. 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate go. (a) Winter-twig, (b) Flowering twig. (4) Twig with ripe fruits. 
(d) Flowers (enlarged), (e) Ovary (enlarged), (f) Outer scales of flowering bud (enlarged), (g) Fruits. 
(h) Apices of fruits (enlarged). Plate 91. Barren shoot. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Hedgerows and parklands in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and doubtless elsewhere. Often 
planted, as in the grounds of St John’s College, Cambridge. 
(/3) var. hunnybuni subvar. pseudo-stricta subvar. nov. 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 92. {a) Winter-twig. ( b ) Flowering twig. ( c ) Flowers and perianth 
(enlarged). ( d ) Ovary (enlarged). ( e ) Twig with fruits. ( f ) Fruits, (g) Apices of fruits (enlarged), (h) Outer 
scale of flower-bud (enlarged). Plate 93. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Differs in the shorter internodes of the young twigs which tend to remain in one plane, 
giving the trees a rather striking appearance. 
This subvariety is sometimes gathered in error for Ulmus stricta. 
(b) U. nitens var. sowerbyi var. nov.; U. glabra Smith toe. cit. y in sensu stricto; U. tortuosa Host FI. 
Austr. i, 330 (1827)!. 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 2248, as U. glabra. 
A smaller tree than var. hunnybuni. Branches shorter, upper ones very tortuous. Laminae 
smaller, acute. Fruits rather smaller, obovate to elliptical. 
Smith ( loc . cit.) refers to this variety as the “ Norfolk Elm.” 
Hedgerows and woods in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and doubtless elsewhere. Often planted, 
as on Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge. 
Woods (rare), hedgerows (rather common), and parklands in eastern England and in the 
eastern Midlands, chiefly on clayey and alluvial soils ; rarer in southern England ; not indigenous 
in western or northern England. The occurrence and distribution of the species of this genus in 
Ireland have not been studied. Probably indigenous in Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hun- 
tingdonshire, Northamptonshire, and a few other eastern and south-eastern English counties. 
Planted as far north as central Scotland, but always very rare in hilly districts. 
Southern Scandinavia (? indigenous), Denmark (? indigenous), Germany, France, central Europe 
(ascending to 1200m. in the Alps), Russia, southern Europe; northern Africa; Asia Minor and 
westwards to central Asia; North America (not indigenous). 
