Crossword-Solution: CELTIS 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The soil was here light but rich, though in some places rather sandy; and, with the exception of scattered fringe along the bank, the timber, consisting principally of poplar, (_populus moniliefera_,) elm, and hackberry, (_celtis crassifolia_,) is confined almost entirely to the islands.

Near a remarkably rocky point of the mountain, at a large spring of pure water, were several hackberry-trees, (_celtis_,) probably a new species, the berries still green; and a short distance farther, thickets of sumach, (_rhus_.) On the plain here I noticed blackbirds and grouse.

Thus, whilst the heraldic insignia of Sauve should be a trident, those of Quissac should be surmounted by an old shoe! In the former place the forked branches of the _Celtis australis_ or nettle tree, _Ulmaceæ_, afford a most profitable occupation.

Nettle-tree, _Celtis occidentalis_.* Katsura-tree, _Cercidiphyllum Japonicum_.‡ A small or medium-sized tree of very attractive foliage and habit.

Observed Kydia, Alstonia, _Eurya_, Triumfetta, Celtis, Engelhardtia, Rhus, Rottlera, Loranthus, Callicarpa and Dicksonia all at a high elevation, but this latter is scarce.