HAZEL 



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(ii) Buds with only 2, or at most 3, scales 

 exposed, and like the twigs glabrous or 

 nearly so; fat ovoid and hardly pointed, 

 olive to brown-red or purplish. 



Fig. 92. Hazel, Corijlus Avellana, p. 184 (D). 



(a) The second or third scale completely 

 embracing the rest; tiuigs cylindric, olive- 

 green or red, with small scattered lenticels. 

 Pith rotind and wJiite. Leaf-scar semi- 

 circular luith one crescentic leaf-trace. 



