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, Corylus Avellana, p. 184 (D). 



(a) The second or third scale completely 

 embracing the rest; twigs cylindric, olive- 

 green or red, with small scattered lenticels. 

 Pith round and white. Leaf -scar semi- 

 circular with one crescentic leaf -trace. 



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