. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. COMMON HORNBEAM. 337. Genus Carpinus, Linn. Linn. Syst. MoncetiaPolyandria. Carpinus betulus. HORNBEAM. Carpinus betulus, Linn. Syn. pi. FL Scot. p. Eng. Flor. vol. iv. p. Flor. Hibern. Syn. p. Arb. Brit. ch. cv. p. 1004. z 338 CAKPINUS. Common, and widely diffused as the Hornbeam is foundthroughout the greater part of the kingdom, it is never-theless much better known as an underwood or as ahedge plant, than in its form of a timber tree with dimen-sions suf
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. COMMON HORNBEAM. 337. Genus Carpinus, Linn. Linn. Syst. MoncetiaPolyandria. Carpinus betulus. HORNBEAM. Carpinus betulus, Linn. Syn. pi. FL Scot. p. Eng. Flor. vol. iv. p. Flor. Hibern. Syn. p. Arb. Brit. ch. cv. p. 1004. z 338 CAKPINUS. Common, and widely diffused as the Hornbeam is foundthroughout the greater part of the kingdom, it is never-theless much better known as an underwood or as ahedge plant, than in its form of a timber tree with dimen-sions sufficient to place it among those of the second,if not of the first rank. Sir J. E. Smith, indeed, andSir W. J. Hooker, in their botanical works, call it asmall and low tree, but this is by no means its generalcharacter, or applicable to it when allowed to grow un-mutilated and in soils suited to its habit; under favour-able circumstances it attains a height of from forty tofifty feet, with a trunk of commensurate thickness, andwhich often reaches a circumference of six or eight fee
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