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THE HAZEL. 



CORYLUS AVELLANA* PL 11. 



FrucJification. Barren ^flowers in a long 

 fcaly catkin, each flower of eight 

 chives. Fertile flowers on the fame 

 tree in buds, diftant, each flower 

 with two fhafts, the feed-bud chan- 

 ging to a nut. 



Specific cbarafter. Leaves oval, ferrated, 

 wrinkled; props or ftipulae oval, 

 blunt. 



THOUGH the hazel does not arrive at the 

 bulk of a timber-tree, it is on feveral ac- 

 counts worth notice among the natives of 

 the foreft. Its male catkins, of a yellowifh 

 green, are among the firft appearances in 

 the year of vegetable expanfion, generally 

 unfolding in the month of January. Its 

 fruit-bearing buds make a beautiful fhow 

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