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HAZEL: CHESTNUT 



A 



Fig. 81. Hazel, Corylus Avellana. A, twig with $ and ? inflorescences; 

 B, cover-scale with 3 flower, from within; C, the same with the anthers 

 removed to show the two bracts a and p ; D, floral diagram of same ; E, 

 plan-diagram of ? flowering shoot; / leaf-scar in the axil of which the 

 shoot is borne; a and /3 bracts; 1 8 pairs of stipules (bud-scales), the 

 inner of which have their corresponding leaves ; in the centre five ? flowers ; 

 shoot-axis; F, a cover-scale with its pair of ? flowers; G, plan-diagram 

 of ? inflorescence ; * the missing central flower of the dichasium ; axis 

 of catkin. In all, b is the cover-scale ; a and /3 bracts ; a' and /3' bracteoles, 

 p. 246 (Ei). 



* The < flowers in sessile tufts on stiff 

 and outstanding, long, slender spikes, with 

 a few triple groups of $ flowers at the 

 base of some of them. Each group of 

 three $ flowers completely invested in a 

 prickly cupule. 



Oastanea vesca, L. Chestnut (Figs. 82, 83, 84). Large 

 tree, with lanceolate serrate leaves and monoecious pollen- 

 flowers, and at least in part entomophilous. 



Spicate catkins single, axillary, often numerous, 12 

 21 cm. long, stiff, erect, cylindroid. flowers in dichasia 

 of 3 7 in the axil of the bract, and surrounded by minute 

 bracteoles; each flower with about 9 12 long stamens 

 and a rudimentary pistil, enclosed in a 6-lobed perianth ; 



