OSTRYA 



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pubescent along the margin ; anthers hairy at the tips ; pistillate catkins 

 terminating leafy shoots, very pubescent, bractlets in fruit 3-lobed, and 

 prominently veined, about 25 mm. long, nutlets ovate, veined, 5 mm. long: 

 ca r 1 i 11 i a n a, Carolinian. 



In moist woods, especially along streams, common throughout the 

 south half of the state, extending north into Pine County and the White 

 Earth reservation. Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minn., south to Fla. 

 and Texas. 



Wood light brown, close grained, very hard and durable, weight 45 

 lbs. Used for wedges, levers and for fuel. Blossoms in April and May, 

 fruit ripe in August. 



Ostrya (Micheli) Scopoli 1760 

 (Gr. ostrya, a tree with hard wood) 



Small to medium-sized trees, bark brown and furrowed, foliage re- 

 sembling that of the birch; leaves with slightly bent veins; staminate 

 catkins 1-3 together, from scaly buds at the tips of the branches of the 

 previous year, flowers solitary in the axil of each bract, stamens 2-10; 

 pistillate catkins solitary, at the ends of short leafy branches of the sea- 

 son, 2 flowers to each bract, each flower subtended by a bractlet which 

 enlarges and becomes sack-like in fruit, pistil incompletely 2-celled, tipped 



Flowering twigs of Ostrya virginiana 



