Description of Foreign Shrubs 



8i. European Hazel-nut. (Corylus avellana, with var. atro- 

 purpurea.) 



Leaf • 3-4', simple, alternate, serrate, slightly roundish, base 

 cordate, downy when young. Flower : staminate in slender 

 dense catkins ; fertile in a small "head"; oval nut, i' long, en- 

 closed in deeply lobed involucre of about same length ; young 

 shoots bristly. Var. atropurpurea has dark purple foliage which 

 becomes almost green by fall. 



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