. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Ulmus Glabra. Auct. THE SMOOTH-LEAVED WYOH ELM. Ulmus glabra Ulmus mont. glabraUlmus montana B. Smiths Eng. Flor. ii. p. Br. Flor. p. Synop. p. ays Flor. Hibern. Arb. Brit. ch. ci. p. Br. 282. The Smooth-leaved Elm, whether it be a distinct species,or only a variety of the U. montana, seems in a greatmeasure confined to Essex and the adjoining counties, THE SMOOTH-LEAVED WYCH ELM. 135 as it is rarely met with in other districts of is, to use Sir J. E. Smiths descript

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. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Ulmus Glabra. Auct. THE SMOOTH-LEAVED WYOH ELM. Ulmus glabra Ulmus mont. glabraUlmus montana B. Smiths Eng. Flor. ii. p. Br. Flor. p. Synop. p. ays Flor. Hibern. Arb. Brit. ch. ci. p. Br. 282. The Smooth-leaved Elm, whether it be a distinct species,or only a variety of the U. montana, seems in a greatmeasure confined to Essex and the adjoining counties, THE SMOOTH-LEAVED WYCH ELM. 135 as it is rarely met with in other districts of is, to use Sir J. E. Smiths description, a tall eleganttree, with spreading, rather drooping smooth blackishbranches, scarcely downy in their earliest stage of leaves are of a firm rigid consistence, very smoothon both sides, having no hairs beneath except the axillarypubescence of the ribs; they are strongly serrated, muchsmaller than those of the U. montana, and of a moreoblong form. The peduncles of the flowers are veryshort, and the samera, which is smaller than that of theU. mon

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