. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . TVec. Identification. Michx. FL Bor. Amer, 2. p. 2i8.; Bicb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. Suppl., 1. p. 187. ; Roem. etSchult Syst Veg., C. p. 30*.; Desf. Hist
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . TVec. Identification. Michx. FL Bor. Amer, 2. p. 2i8.; Bicb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. Suppl., 1. p. 187. ; Roem. etSchult Syst Veg., C. p. 30*.; Desf. Hist, dcs Arbres et Arbriss., 2. p. 446. Synonynu-s. P. cren&ta Michx. Mem. sur le Zelkoua ; P. carjiinifulia Wats. Dend. Brit., t 106. ;P crenata Desf.; Ah&mnus carpinifblius PaU. Fl. Huss. ulmoldes OUldenst. It., 1. p. 313. and427. J (/Imus crcnita Wort, far., t. parvifblia Willd. Baum. ; U. camptstris Walt. Fl. Carol.,p. iii. ; U. polj-gama Richard Act. Paris, 1781 ; U. nemorilis Ail. Hort. Keu>.,cd. 2., p. 108. ; crenatis baii icqualibus, fructu ovoideo, non compresso, Poirct Encyc. Meth., iv. p. till.; leZelkoua, or Orme de Sib^rie, Fr. ; Richards Planerc, Gcr. Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t (30. ; Wals. Dend. Brit, t 10(5. ; our fig. 1249.; and the plate* ofthe tree in our last Volume. Spec. Sfc. Flowers solitary in the axils of leaves ; and both flowers and 4 z 2 1410 AUBOUETUM AND FllUTJCETUM. PAKT leaves borne on a shoot that is developed in the same year with of leaf not obvious; disk of leaf elliptical, unequal at the base,dentate. Indigenous to the w est of Asia, and upon the shores of the CaspianSea; and to Imiietta and Georgia, on the south of Mount Caucasus. (N. DuHam.) Introduced in 1760; flowering in April or May; and growing tothe height of from 50 ft. to 70 ft. Bescriptwn, Sfc. The zelkoua, in its native countr}, according to Michaux,is a tree of the largest size, growing to the height of from 73 ft. to 80 ft.,
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