. Flowers of the field. Botany. MAST-BEARIXG FA1IIL\'' 449 I. C. Avelldiia (Common Hazel).—A shrub or small tree with grey bark on stem, brown, hairy, and glandular on shoots ; haves roundish, obliquely cordate, irregularly serrate, pointed, plaited. QU^RCL'S R6ErR {Co!>!>ucn Onk). parallel to the midrib in bud ; flowers preceding the leaves ; stamiuate calkins i—2 in. long, drooping,* yellow; carpellate flowers in small, sessile, ovoid, erect heads, with imbricate brads and crimson stigmas. — ^^'oods : February, March. abundant.—Fl, Perennial. 5. QUERCUS deciduous (or, (Oak).—Trees with
. Flowers of the field. Botany. MAST-BEARIXG FA1IIL\'' 449 I. C. Avelldiia (Common Hazel).—A shrub or small tree with grey bark on stem, brown, hairy, and glandular on shoots ; haves roundish, obliquely cordate, irregularly serrate, pointed, plaited. QU^RCL'S R6ErR {Co!>!>ucn Onk). parallel to the midrib in bud ; flowers preceding the leaves ; stamiuate calkins i—2 in. long, drooping,* yellow; carpellate flowers in small, sessile, ovoid, erect heads, with imbricate brads and crimson stigmas. — ^^'oods : February, March. abundant.—Fl, Perennial. 5. QUERCUS deciduous (or, (Oak).—Trees with in foreign species, evergreen) leaves ; slaimiiate flowers in a slender, drooping, interrupted catkin ; stamens 10, with slender, filaments ; carpellate flowers few, each enclosed in numerous imbricate scales, forming a cup in the fruit ; ovary 3-chambered, 6- ovuled; jruit or acorn i-seeded. (Name, the Classical Latin name of the tree.) I. Q. Robur (Common Oak).—A large tree, with deeplv fur- rowed, corky Ja;';^; i\gziLgbra>7ches ; obovate-oblong, sinuate/caiifS with blunt lobes, with or without stalks ; flowers appearing with the leaves ; cup with numerous, adpressed, triangular, blunt scales. G G. 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 Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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