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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[Feb. 1, 1S69. 



grow, and by their more numerous and shorter 

 scales. 



Hazel (Cori/l/es aoellaiui), fig. 2G. — This tree and 

 the hornbeam are generally grown together in our 

 Kentish woods for hop-poles, firewood, &c. Their 

 leaves on first expanding are very similar, and may 



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Fig. 33. Wych Elm. o, leaf-scar. 



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Fig 31. Sycamore. 



form and colour ; so that the trees are more easily 

 separated in winter than summer. The buds are 

 obovate, laterally compressed, particularly the axil- 

 lary ones ; margin of scales with fine streak of reddish 

 brown. 



easily be confused. At this time the great difference 

 in the colour of their stipules is sufficient to sepa- 

 rate them at a glance : those of the hornbeam are 

 quite red. Their buds are widely different, both in 



Fig. 35. Horse Chestnut. 



Fig. 36. Ash. 



Wych Elm (Ulmus monianus), fig. 33. — The buds 

 of this tree arc broadly ovate or elliptical, dark, and 

 shining. 



