PORTUGAL LAUREL: CHESTNUT 



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serrated teeth, and no smell of almonds. Venation as in 

 the last, but the secondaries not protruding. 



ft Leaves thin, not evergreen and polished ; 

 cuspidate-dentate. Venation strictly pinnate. 



Castanea vesca, Gaertn. Chestnut (Fig. 82). Large 

 spreading tree. Leaves lanceolate, or oblong- to ovate- 

 lanceolate, about 1520 x 57 (825 x 48) cm., 



Fig. 82. Chestnut, Castanea vesca, p. 233 (Ett). 



