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HAZEL: CHESTNUT 



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Fig. 81. Hazel, Corylus Avellana. A, twig with 3 and ? inflorescences; 

 B, cover-scale with <? flower, from within; C, the same with the anthers 

 removed to show tlie two bracts a and /3; D, floral diagram of same; E, 

 plan-diagram of ? flowering shoot; / leaf-scar in the axil of which the 

 shoot is borne; a and /3 bracts; 1 g jmirs of stipules (bnd-scales), the 

 inner of which have their corresponding leaves ; in the centre five ? flowers ; 

 shoot-axis; F, a cover-scale with its pair of ? flowers; G, plan-diagram 

 of ? inflorescence ; * the missing central flower of the dichasium ; 8 axis 

 of catkin. In all, h is the cover-scale ; a and /3 bracts ; a and B' bracteoles, 

 p. 246 (Ei). 



* The $ flowers in sessile tufts on stifi" 

 and outstanding, long, slender spikes, with 

 a few triple groups of $ flowers at the 

 base of some of them. Each group of 

 three 5 flowers completely invested in a 

 prickly cupule. 



Gastanea vesca, L. Chestnut (Figs. 82, 83, 84). Large 

 tree, with lanceolate serrate leaves and raonoecioiis pollen- 

 flowers, and at least in part entomophilous. 



Spicate catkins single, axillary, often numerous, 12 

 21 cm. long, stifF, erect, cylindroid. J' flowers in dichasia 

 of ^ '^ in the axil of the bract, and surrounded by minute 

 bracteoles; each flower with about 9 12 long stamens 

 and a rudimentary pistil, enclosed in a 6-lobed perianth ; 



