QUERNALS. 90 MASTWORTS. 
5. Q. sessiliflora Smith.—(Snort-statKeD Oak.) Fig. 135. 
Leaves deciduous, obovate, sinuated, long-stalked ; acorns nearly sessile. — 
Habitat. Europe, especially the central and southern parts. 
Quality and Uses. Asin the last. Acorns sometimes sweet and eatable, like Chesnuts. 
Faeus. Linneus. 
Ovary 3-celled. Fruit in a prickly husk ; mast triangular. 
1. F. sylvatica Linneus.—(The Brecu Tres.) Fig. 136. 
Leayes ovate, smooth, toothed, slightly ciliated. 
136 
Habitat. Europe. 
Quality. Husks narcotic? Nuts eatable. 
Uses. Oil in abundance in the Nuts. Timber hard, but not durable. 
Carpinus. Linneeus. 
Ovary 2-celled. Fruit within flat leafy bracts ; nut small, striated. 
1. C. Betulus Linneus.—(The Hornseam.) Fig. 137. 
Leaves ovate, doubly serrated ; bracts 3-lobed. 
Habitat. Woods of Europe. 
Quality. Tonie. 
Uses, Bark a bad febrifuge. Timber coarse and of little value ? 
Corrius. Linneeus. 7 2 
Ovary 2-celled. Fruit rolled in a leafy lobed unarmed husk ; nut round. 
1. C, Avellana Linneus.—(Haze Nur.) a 
Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminate ; husks campanulate, spreading and 
lacerated at the end. 
Habitat. Woods of Europe. 
Uses, Nuts sweet, eatable, 
Fig. 136,—Leaf of Fagus sylvatica; 137. Ditto of Carpinus Betulus. 
