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CARPINUS 



ovate, with the lower portion on one side doubled over. The nut is covered by 

 a small additional roundish bract, ^ in. long. 



Native of Japan ; introduced in 1895. It makes, in a small state, a sturdy 

 pyramidal tree, and is evidently very hardy. It is distinct and handsome- 

 looking because of the numerous (up to twenty-four pairs), deeply impressed 

 veins of the leaf. It is one of the species (see also C. cordata) regarded by 

 some authorities as generically distinct from Carpinus, because of the infolded 

 bases of the more crowded bracts of the fruit. 



CARPINUS JAPONICA. 



C. ORIENTALIS, Miller. ORIENTAL HORNBEAM. 

 (C. duinensis, Scopoli^ 



A small tree, or a large shrub, sometimes found in a wild state as a scrubby 

 bush ; young shoots covered with fine silky down. Leaves ovate, i to 2 ins. 

 long, \ to I in. wide ; rounded or slightly wedge-shaped at the base, pointed ; 

 sharply, regularly, and prettily double-toothed; veins in twelve to fifteen pairs; 

 dark glossy green above, with silky down on both surfaces of the midrib; stalk 

 hairy, \ to in. long. Male catkins \ to f in. long ; bracts ovate, unequal- 

 sided ; to in. long, \ in. wide, coarsely and irregularly toothed, but not 

 lobed. Nut \ in. long, exposed. 



Native of S.E. Europe and Asia Minor ; introduced in 1735 by P. 

 Miller. It is abundant on some of the battlefields of the Crimea as low 

 scrub, and, as I have been told by an officer who took part in the Crimean 

 war, much impeded some of the advances of our men, made under cover of 

 darkness. It has not much to commend it to the notice of planters in this 

 country except as being an interesting rarity. The largest specimen at Kew, 

 and probably in this country, is 20 ft. high. Its small leaves and the unlobed 

 bracts of the fruit clusters distinguish it from C. Betulus and C, caroliniana. 



