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551. CARPINUS, Linn. (HORNBEAM.) 



(lOSY.) C. Caroliniana, Walter. Blue Beech. 



C. Americana, Michx. Gray, Man. 457, 1868. Macoun's Cat. No. 1616- 



Low wet woods and margins of swamps. Eeported from Nova 

 Scotia, but very doubtful. Likely the next species. (Macoun.) Eastern 

 Townships and western Quebec, up the Ottawa to the Mattawa and 

 westward to the north shore of the Geoi'gian Bay. In the western 

 peninsula of Ontario, it attains its greatest size, but never becomes a 

 conspicuous object in the forest being a low undersized spreading tree 

 in the rich moist woods along Lake Erie. 



552. OSTRYA, Scop. (IRON WOOD.) 



(1988.) O. Virglnica, Willd. Lever-wood. 



Carpinus Osirya, Linn. Michx. N. American Sylva. II., 162, 1819. 

 C. Ostrya, var. Americana, Michx. Fl. II., 202. 



More widely distributed than the preceding and becoming a much 

 finer tree. Its limits are nearly coincident with that of the maple. 

 Woods on North Mountain, Annapolis, N.S., and on the mountain at 

 Whycocogmah, Cape Breton. (Macoun.) Rather rare at Bass Eiver, 

 and Fredericton, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Common in all maple woods 

 in Quebec and Ontario, and extending west to the east coast of Lake 

 Superior at Goulais Bay. (Macoun.) Lake of the Woods and Eat 

 Portage. (R. Bell.) 



553. CORYLUS, Linn. (HAZEL-NUT.) 



(1989.) C. rostrata, Ait. Beaked Hazel-nut. 



C. avellana. Cat. Holmes Herb, 17. 



A shrub of wide range, forming impassible thickets in woods cut 

 over by lumbermen or devastated by fires. Dartmouth near Halifax, 

 N.S. {Sommers.) Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) Eather common along 

 streams in New Brunswick. (Fowler's Cat.) Abundant in (Quebec and 

 Ontario, and extending westward to Manitoba and the Saskatchewan 

 as far as Prince Albei't. (Macoun.) Not uncommon in the southern 

 part of British Columbia, and occasionally on Vancouver Island. 

 (Dawson.) 



