Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . A, Horn-work, covering a Bastion, B. the glacis, but at times it is merely a straight wallthro^vn across, as in the dotted line. Occasionally, horn-works are very useful; biitmodern engineers generally prefer constructingdetached and advanced works. A double horn-work becomes a Crovm-ivorh (q. v.). HORNBEAM (Carpinus), a genus of the naturalorder CupuUferoe ; consisting of tiees with compact,tough, hard wood; bark almost smooth and of awhitish-gray colour, deciduous leaves, and monoeciousflowers. The male catkins are cylindrical an
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . A, Horn-work, covering a Bastion, B. the glacis, but at times it is merely a straight wallthro^vn across, as in the dotted line. Occasionally, horn-works are very useful; biitmodern engineers generally prefer constructingdetached and advanced works. A double horn-work becomes a Crovm-ivorh (q. v.). HORNBEAM (Carpinus), a genus of the naturalorder CupuUferoe ; consisting of tiees with compact,tough, hard wood; bark almost smooth and of awhitish-gray colour, deciduous leaves, and monoeciousflowers. The male catkins are cylindrical andsessile, their flowers consist merely of a little scale-like bract and 12—24 stamens. The female flowers. Hornbeam [Carpinus Betulus). consist of a germen, crowned -with the 4—8-toothedborder of the perianth, and with two thread-Ukestigmas, and are placed in loose slender catkms,always two together, each at the base of a stalkedbract, which is three-cleft or three-cornered, and HORNBILL—HORNET. which, when the tree is in fruit, enlarges very much,becomes leafy, and covers the fully ripened nut onone side. The nut has a thick husk, and is smalland striated. The Common H. (C. Betfdus), veryfrequent in the woods of many parts of Europe, is abeautiful tree, attaining a height of 60—100 is seldom, indeed, now seen of such dimensions inBritain; but it seems to have formed a principalpart of the ancient forests of some parts of theisland. It has elongato-ovate, acuminate, almosttriply serrate leaves. When in fruit, it has veiylarge, deeply 3-partite bracts. It thrives best in amoderately moist and shady situation. Its rootdescends deep into the ground. The wood is white,very hard,
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