Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ut often with a large and a small tooth alternating ;upper surface dark green, and downy only on the midrib, the numerousparallel veins deeply impressed ; lower surface downy on the veins, vein-axils,and inidrib ; stalk ] to \ in. long, downy. Male catkin i to 2 ins. long ; withconspicuous, narrowly ovate, pointed scales \ in. long. Fruit clusters 2 to long ; the closely overlapping bracts ^ to \ in. long, coarsely toothed, 296 CAIU^NUS ovate, w iih the lower portion on one side doubled over. The nut is covered bya small additional roundis
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ut often with a large and a small tooth alternating ;upper surface dark green, and downy only on the midrib, the numerousparallel veins deeply impressed ; lower surface downy on the veins, vein-axils,and inidrib ; stalk ] to \ in. long, downy. Male catkin i to 2 ins. long ; withconspicuous, narrowly ovate, pointed scales \ in. long. Fruit clusters 2 to long ; the closely overlapping bracts ^ to \ in. long, coarsely toothed, 296 CAIU^NUS ovate, w iih the lower portion on one side doubled over. The nut is covered bya small additional roundish bract, ,\ in. long. Native of Japan ; introduced in 1895. It makes, in a small state, a sturdypyramidal tree, and is evidently very hardy. It is distinct and handsome-looking because of the numerous (up to twenty-four pairs), deeply impressedveins of the leaf. It is one of the species (see also C. cordata) regarded bysome authorities as generically distinct from Carpinus, because of the infoldedbases of the more crowded bracts of the Carpinus japonica. C. ORIENTALIS, Miller. ORIENTAL HORNBEAM.(C. duincnsis, Scdpoli.) A small tree, or a large shrub, sometimes found in a wild state as a scrubbybush ; young shoots covered with fine silky down. Leaves ovate, i to 2 , \ to I in. wide ; rounded or slightly wedge-shaped at the base, pointed ;sharply, regularly, and prettily double-toothed; veins in twelve to fifteen pairs;dark glossy green above, with silky down on both surfaces of the midrib; stalkhairy, /; to | in. long. Male catkins i to | in. long ; bracts ovate, unequal-sided ; f to J in. long, \ in. wide, coarsely and irregularly toothed, but notlobed. Nut ^ in. long, exposed. Native of Europe and Asia Minor ; introduced in 1735 by It is abundant on some of the battlefields of the Crimea as lowscrub, and, as I have been told by an officer who took part in the Crimeanwar, much impeded some of the advances of our men, made under cover ofdarkness. I
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