142 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Cortinarius cinnamomeus, Fries. 



Europe and Asia. This mushroom, together with C. violaceus 

 (Fries), which is also indigenous in the colony of Victoria, is mentioned 

 among numerous congeners by Drs. Badham and Cooke as par- 

 ticularly eligible for the table. Dr. Planchon recommends also C. 

 turbinatus (Fries). 



Corylus Americana, Walter. 



Eastern North-America. Not tall ; easily naturalised by dis- 

 semination, but fruit small and hard-shelled [A. Gray]. 



Corylus Avellana, Linne*.* 



Europe, Northern Africa, Northern and Middle Asia. The 

 ordinary Hazel, so well-known for its filberts or cob-nuts, one 

 variety yielding the Barcelona-nut. A tree attaining a height of 

 30 feet ; wood elastic, particularly valuable for gunpowder-coal, 

 young shoots serving for hoops and walking sticks. The earliest 

 flowering tree in northern countries. Suitable for naturalisation 

 along brooks. London's account also of this tree is extensive and 

 excellent. Chambers says, that generally about 100,000 worth of 

 hazel-nuts are annually imported into Britain. About the same 

 quantity goes to Germany. Hazel-oil is superior to almost any other 

 for the table. An illustrated volume has (1887) been devoted by 

 F. Goeschke to the " Hazel-nuts " in its various kinds. By merely 

 scattering fresh nuts along forest rivulets the plant might be 

 naturalised. 



Corylus Colurna, Linne*.* (C. Byzantina, 1'Ecluse.) 



From Hungary to Greece and the Himalayas, there at from 5,500 

 to 10,000 feet elevation. The Constantinople-Nuttree, the tallest 

 of hazels, attaining 60 feet in height, of rather quick growth. Of 

 late especially recommended as a shady avenue tree. Nuts much 

 pressed for oil [Dr. K. Mueller], Hardy at Christiania in Norway 

 [Schuebeler] . This, as well as the Nepal-Hazel (Corylus ferox, 

 Wallich) and the Japan Hazel (C. heterophylla, Fischer) might be 

 naturalised in forest-gullies for their filberts. 



Corylus maxima, Miller.* (<7. rubra, Borkhausen; C. tubulosa, Willdenow; 

 C. Lambertii, Loddiges). 



Recorded as indigenous to Hungary and Istria by A. de Candolle, 

 who however places the species nearer to C. Americana. Prof. 

 C. Koch thinks that it may have sprung from C. Avellana. It yields 

 the red filbert or Lambert-nut. 



Corylus Pontica, C. Koch.* 



Caucasus. Taller than C. maxima. Fruit similar to the Barce- 

 lona-nut ; much consumed in Constantinople [C. Koch] ; called also 

 Pontinian nut. 



