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westward by Celtis reticulata, Torrey,’ which occurs in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Lower California, and has not yet apparently been introduced.

C. mississippiensis was probably introduced, by the elder Michaux, into France, where the species was first described in 1810 from a tree cultivated at Paris, It was not introduced into England in Loudon’s time. The only cultivated specimen known to us is a small tree in Kew Gardens. (A.H.)


1 Ann. Lyc. N. York, ii. 247 (1828). C. occidentalis, var. reticulata, Sargent, Forest Trees N. Amer., 10th Census, U.S. ix. 126 (1884); Garden and Forest, iii. 40 f. 12 (1890). C. mississippiensis, var. reticulata, Sargent, Silva N. Amer. vii. 72, t. 319 (1895), and Trees N. Amer. 301 (1905).

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