The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Atinia Variegata', the variegated English elm, formerly known as U. procera 'Argenteo-Variegata', is believed to have originated in England in the seventeenth century and to have been cultivated since the eighteenth. The Oxford botanist Robert Plot mentioned in a 1677 Flora a variegated elm in Dorset, where English Elm is the common field elm. Elwes and Henry (1913) had no doubt that the cultivar was of English origin, "as it agrees with the English Elm in all its essential characters".