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and widely-spreading branches, and when standing singly, with a 
head often broader than it is high. Leaves deciduous, oblong, wider 
towards the extremity, sinuses rather acute; lobes blunt, glabrous 
when old, somewhat shining, pubescent beneath when young. low- 
ers moneecious, the males in slender pendulous catkins, or spikes, 
Females solitary or clustered, oblong ovoid, or globular, becoming 
much enlarged and hardened, constituting the well-known permanent 
_ cup of the smooth xut, or acorn, It varies much both in foliage, 
and inflorescence, and two permanent forms may be observed in the 
county. a. Q. sessiliflora, Sm ; leaves petioled, peduncles very short. 
B. Q. pedunculata, Ehrh.,leaves sessile, peduncles long, this last variety 
being the more frequently distributed of the two. With us the 
Oak is certainly one of our most beautiful trees and frequently attains 
a size hardly to be surpassed in England. At Savernake Forest, and 
Tottenham Park numberless oaks will be found of from fifteen up to 
twenty feet and more in circumference, and of great height. Of 
these two may be particularly mentioned :—the “ King’s Oak.” and 
the “ Duke’s Vaunt,” each measuring at five feet from the ground, 
about twenty-five feet in circumference. Longleat and Bowood also 
afford noble specimens of all ages, and almost of all sizes. In Spye 
Park are a number of venerable relics, some of immense size and 
apparently sound, measuring from twenty to twenty-four or twenty- 
five feet in circumference. But doubtless our readers have each their 
favourites in their own immediate neighbourhoods. Among the 
most frequent exotic species in our plantations may be mentioned, 
the Quercus ilex, Q. suber, Q. cerris, and the Q. rubdra. 
Coryius, (Linn.) Hazet. 
Linn. Cl. xxi. Ord. vu. . 
An old Latin word; from corus, a helmet, which the hazel-nut 
resembles in form. 
1. C. Aveliana, (Linn.) Hazel-nut; Aveliana is properly the 
Filbert, so named from Avella, a town of Campania, from whence it 
was introduced. Hngil. Bot. t. 301. 
Locality. Hedges and copses. Shrub Fl. March, April. Area, 
1. 2. 3.4.5. Common in all the Districts. A shrub, or sometimes 
