156 MONOECIA— POLYANDRIA. Corylus. 



C. Betulus. Linn.Sp.Pl.U\(}. Willd.v.4.467. Fl.BrA029. 

 EngL Bot. V. 29. U 2032. Hook, Scot. 27 A. Fl. Dan. 1. 1345. 



C.n. 1627. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 298. 



Carpinus. Matth. Valgr.v. \. \3\.f. Camer. Epii.7\.f. Dod. 

 Pempt.S4\.f. 



Ostrya Ulmo similis, fructu in umbilicis foliaceis. Bauh. Pin. 427. 

 Rail Sijn.45]. 



Ornus. Trag.Hist.l\09.f. 



Fagus sepium, vulgo Ostrys Theophrasti. Bauh. Hist, vA. p. 2. 

 146./. 



Betulus. Loh. lev. 2. 190./. ^ 



B. sive Carpinus. Ger. Em. 1479./ 



In woods and hedges^ on a meagre, damp, tenacious soil. 



It makes a principal part of the antient forests on the north and 

 east sides of London, as Epping, Finchley, &c. 



Tree. May. 



A rigid tree, of humble growth, patient of cropping, and well suit- 

 ed for cut hedges, or covered walks, in gardens of the old style, 

 some of which may still be seen, attached to several old English 

 mansions. The wood is, as Gerarde says, of a horny toughness 

 and hardness j the 6arA- smooth and whitish, orlightgrey. Leaves 

 resembling those of an elm, but smooth, doubly serrated, point- 

 ed, about 2 inches long, plaited when young, having numerous, 

 parallel, transverse, hairy ribs. Stipiilas oblong, obtuse, smooth, 

 reddish, deciduous. Catkins and dusters terminal, solitary, 

 drooping ; the latter becoming greatly enlarged, with perma- 

 nent, dilated, stalked, unequally 3-lobed, sharply serrated, veiny, 

 dry, pale-green hracteas, each enveloping an angular nut 

 scarcely bigger than a grain of barley. 



When standing by itself, and allowed to take its natural form, the 

 Hornbeam makes a much more handsome tree than most people 

 are aware of. 



446. CORYLUS. Hasel-nut. 



Linn. Gen. 498. Juss.4\0. Fl. Br. \030. Toiirn. t.347. Lam. 

 t. 780. Gcertn. t. 89. 



Nat. Ord. see ii. 442. 



Barr. /I. Catkin cylindrical, imbricated every way. Scales 

 single-flowered, imbricated, much contracted at the base, 

 in 3 deep, ovate, concave segments, the middle one 

 largest, lying over the others. Cor, none. Filam. 8, or 

 more, hanging from the under side of each scale, capil- 

 lary, rather short. AntJi, roundish, compressed, of 2 

 cells, pendulous, not extending beyond the scale. 



Fert. f, from remote scaly buds, aggregate. Outer calyx 

 inferior, of 1 leaf, deeply divided, many-flowered, subse- 



