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CUPULIFER/E 



3. Carpinus (Hornbeam). — Trees with deciduous leaves; 

 staminate flowers in catkins ; stamens 3 — 12, with forked filaments 

 and tufts of hair on the anthers ; carpellate flowers in pairs in the 

 axils of leafy bracts, forming an erect spike in flower, becoming 

 pendulous in fruit ; ovary 2-chambered, 2-ovuled ; styles 2. 

 (Name, the Classical Latin name of the tree.) 



I . C. Betulus (Common Hornbeam).— A small tree with smooth, 

 light grey bark; leaves elliptic-ovate, acute, doubly serrate, strongly 

 plaited parallel to the pinnate veins when in bud ; fruiting catkins 



cuRYLUS avellAna {Cominon Hazel). 



2 — 4 in. long, with large 3-lobed leafy bracts. — Clayey woods in 

 the south ; local. Valuable as fuel and for cogs. — Fl. May. 

 Perennial. 



4. CoRYLUS (Hazel), — Shrubs or trees with deciduous leaves ; 

 staminate catkins long, drooping, cylindric; stamens 4 — 8, with 

 short filaments and tufts of hair on the anthers ; carpellate flowers 

 in pairs in the axils of the upper bracts of a small head ; ovary 

 2-chambered, 2-ovuled; styles 2, long, slender ; fruit a woody nut, 

 enclosed in a withering leafy capsule. (Name, the Classical Latin 

 name of the tree, from the Greek korus, a cup.) 



