212 



Oak (Cupulifercz) 



Fruit, wingless, slightly margined, orbicular. 



Found, in wet land from Massachusetts westward and 

 northward. 



A shrub eight to twenty feet high ; the common alder 

 northward. 



(3) Genus CORYLUS, Tourn. (Hazel-nut.) 



Probably from a Greek word meaning "helmet " from the bonnet-like covering 

 of the nut. 



Flowers, appearing before the leaves, the staminate forms 

 with eight stamens, in long, drooping clusters ; the 

 pistillate form, several from a scaly bud, each a 

 single adherent seed-case tipped with the end of the 

 calyx, with two side bractlets, a style, and two slender 

 stigmas. April. 



Leaves, simple, alternate, toothed, folded lengthwise in the 

 bud. 



Fruit, the size of a small marble, oval or rounded to 

 oblong, bony, covered with a large, leafy, downy 

 wrap with slashed edges, often in clusters ; a bony 

 nut. 



Fig. 99. Wild Hazel-nut. C. Americana, Walt. 



Flowers, the staminate clusters two to three inches long, 

 and two to five together. April. 



Leaves, three to six inches long, rather coarse, rough 

 above, downy and hairy on the veins beneath, out- 

 line variable from egg-shape to slightly reverse 

 egg-shape. Leaf-stem, covered with glandular hairs. 



