LXX. CORYLA CEJE : STRYA. 



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1727. C. rostrata. 



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long iu one year ; and sometimes nearly as much in the climate of London. It 

 will grow in almost any soil, but does best in one similar to that adapted for the 

 common hazel. It is easily propagated by seed, grafts, or layers. Grafting 

 on the common hazel is, however, the most general way, as the nut often 

 proves abortive. 



3fc 3. C- ROSTRA^TA Ait. The beaked, American, 

 or Cuckold, Hazel. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 364. ; Michx. Amer., 2. p. 201. 

 Synonymes. C. sylvestris, &c. Gron. Virg. 151. ; C. cornuta Hurt. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 1727. from a specimen in the British Museum 



gathered in autumn, and showing the male catkins beginning to 



develope themselves. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stipules linear-lanceolate. Leaves 



ovate-oblong, acuminate. Involucre of the fruit 



tubular, campanulate, larger than the nut, 2-partite ; 



divisions inciso-dentate. (Willd.) A bushy deci- 

 duous shrub. Canada to Carolina, on mountains. 



Height 4ft. to 5 ft. Introduced in 1745. Flowers 



and fruit as in the common hazel. 



Resembling the common European hazel, but dis- 

 tinguished from it by its fruit being covered with the 

 calyx, which is prolonged in the form of a long very 

 hairy beak ; and hence the name. 



sit 4. C. AMERICA'NA Michx. The American Hazel. 



Identification. Michx. Amer., 2. p. 210. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 471. ; Lodd. Cat 



1836. 

 Synonymes. C. americana humilis Wang Amer. 88. t. 29. f. 63. ; Dwarf Cuckold Nut 



wild Filbert, Amer. 

 Engravings. Wang. Amer., 88. t. 29. f. 63. ; and our fig. 1728. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminate. Invo- 

 lucre of the fruit roundish, campanulate, longer than the nut ; 

 limb spreading, dentately serrated. (Willd.) A deciduous 

 shrub. Canada to Florida, in low shady woods. Height 4 ft. 

 to 8ft. Introduced in 1798. Flowers and fruit as in the 

 common hazel. 



It differs from C. 

 rostrata about as 

 much as the filbert from the 

 European hazel. The calyx i& 

 larger than the included nut, 

 the flavour of the kernel of 

 which is said to be very fine. 



C. ferox Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 t. 87., and our fig. 1729., in 

 which a is the nut with its 

 deeply laciniated calyx ; b, the 

 nut ; c, the kernel ; and d, a 

 longitudinal section of the nut, 

 with the kernel enclosed. The 

 leaves are oblong, and much 

 pointed. Stipules linear-lance- 

 olate. Nut compressed, and 

 half the length of the villous, 

 2-parted, ragged, and spinous 

 involucre. (Wall.} A decidu- 

 ous tree, 20 ft. high, with a 

 trunk sometimes 2 ft. in cir- 

 cumference, and somewhat 

 glabrous ash-coloured bark. 1729. c. R-K* 



