. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . nd pulverized. TheKernels are feldom without maggots in 1 Alnus, Tourn. One of the three New-England species (A. incana, Willd.) iscommon to Europe and America. Another (A. serrulata, Willd.) bears sogreat a resemblance, says F. A. Michaux, to the common European alder (, Willd.) in its flowers, its seeds, its leaves, its wood, and its bark, asto render a separate figure unnecessary; the only difference observable betweenthem being that the European species is larger, and has
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . nd pulverized. TheKernels are feldom without maggots in 1 Alnus, Tourn. One of the three New-England species (A. incana, Willd.) iscommon to Europe and America. Another (A. serrulata, Willd.) bears sogreat a resemblance, says F. A. Michaux, to the common European alder (, Willd.) in its flowers, its seeds, its leaves, its wood, and its bark, asto render a separate figure unnecessary; the only difference observable betweenthem being that the European species is larger, and has smaller leaves. —Sylva, vol. ii. p. 114. Compare Gray, Statistics, &c, /. c, p. 83. A. viridis, ourthird species, is common to Europe and this country. 2 Corylus, L. Our species, which are peculiar to America, are both indicated :the filberd, . . with hairy husks upon the nuts, being C. rout rata, Ait.(beaked hazel); and that setting hollow from the nut, — that is, larger thanthe nut,— C. Americana. Wangenh. (common hazel). $efo=<£ttglatttrs Parities. 97 The Figure of the Walnut \ the Nuts differ much fromours in Europe, they being fmooth, muchlike a Nutmeg in fhape, and not muchbigger; fome three cornered, all of thembut thinly replenimed with [51] Cheftnuts\ very fweet in tafte, and may be (as 1 Carya, Nutt. In the Voyages, p. 69, the author speaks of the walnut,which is divers : some bearing square nuts; others like ours, but smaller. Thereis likewise black walnut, of precious use for tables, cabinets, and the like(Juglans nigra, L.). The walnut-tree, continues Josselyn, is the toughestwood in the countrie, and therefore made use of for hoops and bowes; there beingno yews there growing. In England, they made their bowes usually of witch-hasel(that is, witch-elm,— Ulmus montana, Bauh., Lindl.; as see Gerard, : but Carfinus, in Essex, is called witch-hasell, — id.), ash, yew, the bestof outlandish elm; but the Indians make theirs of wal
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