. British trees. Trees. 588 SWEET CHESTNUT TREE. tip are conspicuous for the contrast between the straight line of the mid-rib and the sharp spiney margins of the blade, which are still folded together. The leaves at the base of the shoot, which were the first formed, now begin to flatten out. Two narrow pointed green stipules spring from the base of each leaf-stalk ; they turn brown and papery and fall before the leaf has ceased to grow. The new shoot is now of a bright green. THE FLOWERS AND FRUIT The catkins appear about June on the new shoots. Male and female flowers are produced on the sa
. British trees. Trees. 588 SWEET CHESTNUT TREE. tip are conspicuous for the contrast between the straight line of the mid-rib and the sharp spiney margins of the blade, which are still folded together. The leaves at the base of the shoot, which were the first formed, now begin to flatten out. Two narrow pointed green stipules spring from the base of each leaf-stalk ; they turn brown and papery and fall before the leaf has ceased to grow. The new shoot is now of a bright green. THE FLOWERS AND FRUIT The catkins appear about June on the new shoots. Male and female flowers are produced on the same tree, in fact on the same catkin, though the catkins do not all carry female flowers. The male flowers occupy the chief part of the catkin, the female flowers being found only near its base. The catkins spring singly from the axils of the leaves ; each one consists of a green, stiff, twisted axis, usually either horizontal or hanging, but occasionally upright, which is about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter and tour to seven inches long. At intervals down its whole length it is studded with pairs or groups of flowers. The Male Flowers are very plentiful. Each flower is made up of many florets, and each floret consists of a calyx of five or six yellowish green scales, from which project a number of thin stamens tipped with sulphur-coloured pollen sacs. The Female Flowers are comparatively scarce. They are usually found on those catkins which ; WITH ââ ;^, spring from the axils of the leaves /*^2tt» ^-cn SiMWffi^*' nearest the apex of the The flower is made up of a _c,-ji^~ cupule of bracts covered with prickles, which encloses the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cole, Rex Vicat, b. 1870; Kempe, Dorothy. London : Hutchinson
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