. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Germs Fagus, Linn. Linn. Syst. Mbncecia Polyundria. Fagus sylvatica. BEECH. Fagus sylmtka, Linn. sp. pi. sp. pi. iv. p. Eng. Flor. iv. p. Brit. Flor. ed. in. p. Flor. Hiborn. p. syn. p. 239. Loudons Arb. Brit. p. in. eh. cv. p. 306 The specific and distinguishing characters of the Beechare, leaves ovate, obsoletely serrated, and ciliated on theirmargins. Prickles of theouter calyx simple. Stig-mas three. The Beech is a tree ofthe first magnitud
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Germs Fagus, Linn. Linn. Syst. Mbncecia Polyundria. Fagus sylvatica. BEECH. Fagus sylmtka, Linn. sp. pi. sp. pi. iv. p. Eng. Flor. iv. p. Brit. Flor. ed. in. p. Flor. Hiborn. p. syn. p. 239. Loudons Arb. Brit. p. in. eh. cv. p. 306 The specific and distinguishing characters of the Beechare, leaves ovate, obsoletely serrated, and ciliated on theirmargins. Prickles of theouter calyx simple. Stig-mas three. The Beech is a tree ofthe first magnitude, fre-quently vieing in dimen-sions with the oak, the ash,and the chesnut; its usualform, when growing singlyand not drawn up by otherlofty trees, is that of an ex-pansive round-headed tree,the stem, below the diva-rication of the greaterjimbs,generally short, the head crowded and composed of many branches, which at firstform acute angles with the stem, but in old trees fre-quently bend in the middle and again curve upwards atthe extremity ; and it not unfrequently happens that, inclose-headed trees, where the branches cross and comein contact with each other, a junction or natural inarchingtakes place. In mass, and growing pretty close together,it runs up to a great height, with a clean straight stem,the lower branches either dying gradually off, or so muchchecked in the
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