SLIPPERY ELM; RED Etas (Ulinua fulva, Michx.). 60 to 70 I feet. Fast-growing tree, with erect, spreading branches, forming broad, open head. Twigs stout, rusty, downy, with large, rusty buds. Bark brown, rough, scaly, tinged red, inner layers mucilaginous, sweet. Wood heavy, hard, cross-grained, durable, easy to split, used for posts, ties, sills, farm imple ments, and fuel. Leaves ovate-oblong, oblique at base, abruptly pointed at apex, coarsely saw-toothed, with horny, incurved teeth, roughened by fine, sharp tubercles, pointing toward apex, pubescent, dark green, with pale, downy lining and petiole; length 5 to 7 inches, width 2 to 3 inches. Flowers
perfect, small, in crowded, short-stemmed fascicles, greenish with red anthers and stigmas, with silvery hairs throughout. April. Fruit, May; rounded, hairy, except on rim which forms the thin, elongated, netted-veined wing, hooked at apex. Dist.: Stream borders, New Brunswick, Ontario to Dakota and Nebraska; south to Florida and Texas.