The Celtis occidentalis.

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1796.  [The] papaw, the hackberry, and the cucumber-trees.—Morse, ‘American Geography,’ i. 636. (N.E.D.)

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1817.  The alluvion [land produces] … nettle-tree, or hackberry (Celtis crassifolia), &c.—John Bradbury, ‘Travels,’ p. 258.

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1818.  It is named as the Celtis crassifolia in W. Darby’s ‘Emigrants’ Guide,’ p. 80.

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1818.  See TREE.

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1830.  [The timber in Sagamon Co., Ill., is] … linn, cotton wood, hackberry, buckeye, &c.—Mass. Spy, July 7. (Linn is the lime or linden.)

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1847.  In the town of Rio Grande, we saw a large cypress, and many peccan, fig, mulberry, willow, and hackberry trees.—‘Life of Benjamin Lundy,’ p. 58 (Phila.).

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1848.  He saw it [the ocelot] ascending the trunk of a huge hackberry; he fired, and it dropped.—C. W. Webber, ‘Old Hicks the Guide,’ p. 90 (N.Y.).

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