. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 3. BIRCH FAMILY. 607 In dry woods, Cape Breton Island to Manitoba, Nebraska, Florida and Texas. Wood similar to that of the Hornbeam, but heavier ; weight per cubic foot 51 lbs. Bark scaly. April-May. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Hard-hack. Indian-cedar or black-hazel. I-ever- or deer-wood. 3. CORYLUS (Tourn.) L. Sp. PI. 998. 1753. Shrubs or smali»1:rees, with br
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 3. BIRCH FAMILY. 607 In dry woods, Cape Breton Island to Manitoba, Nebraska, Florida and Texas. Wood similar to that of the Hornbeam, but heavier ; weight per cubic foot 51 lbs. Bark scaly. April-May. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Hard-hack. Indian-cedar or black-hazel. I-ever- or deer-wood. 3. CORYLUS (Tourn.) L. Sp. PI. 998. 1753. Shrubs or smali»1:rees, with broad thin serrulate or incised leaves. Staminate aments sessile at the end^if twigs of the previous season, expanding much before the leaves, the flowers solitary'in the axil of each bract, of about 4 stamens and 2 bractlets; filaments 2-cleft or 2-divided, each fork bearing an anther-sac, which is villous at the summit. Calyx none. Pistillate flowers from scaly buds, clustered at the ends of short branches of the season, each in the axil of a bract, consisting of an incompletely 2-celled ovary adnate to a calyx, a short style and 2 slender stigmas; bractlets 2, enlarged in fruit, forming a leaf-like involucre to the nut, remaining nearly distinct or united into a tubular beak. Nut ovoid or oblong, sometimes compressed, large, bony. [Name Greek, from the helmet-like involucre.] Species 7, in the northern hemisphere. Besides the following, another occurs in California. Type species : Corylus Avellana L. Involucre of 2 broad laciniate bractlets; leaves serrulate. 1. C. americana. Involucral bractlets united, prolonged into a tubular bristly beak. 2. C. rostrata. i. Corylus americana Walt. Hazel-nut. Filbert. Fig. 1492. Corylus americana Walt. Fl. Car. 236. 1788. A shrub, 3°-8° tall, the young shoots russet- brown, densely hispid-pubescent with pinkish hairs, the twigs becoming glabrous. Leaves ovate or broadly oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, serrulate all around, cordate
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