CUPULIFER.E 



sub-sessile, outer scale-bracts empty, inner upper 3-lobed bracteoles each con- 

 taining 2 flowers ; Perianth with a minute filiform toothed border ; Ovary 

 2-celled, styles 2, stigmas red ; Fruit a hard brown nut enclosed in a leafy, 

 canipanulate bract (cupule), which is unequally lobed and jagged, ripe in 

 October. 



Leaves alternate, orbicular, obliquely cordate, acuminate, doubly serrated, 

 2-4 ins. long; petiole short, pubescent when young, coarse and glabrous after- 

 wards ; stipules oblong, obtuse, petioles and stipules with reddish glandular haiis. 

 Autumn tint yellow. 



A deciduous shruh or small tree, 20-30 ft. ; Shoots flexible and tougli, brown, 

 hairy, glandular ; Bark spht, ash-grey on stem ; Buds compressed, scales ciliate, 

 reddish glandular hairs ; IVood whitish-red, close-grained, soft, very elastic. 



Native of Britain ; seldom allowed to develop into tree of any size. Name 

 from A.S. haesel. 



Injurious Insects : — Bud Galls — Hazel and P'ilbert Bud JNIite {Phytoptus 

 avellana) ; Fruit — Nut Weevil {Balaninus nucum) ; Leaves — Garden Chafer 

 {Phyllopertha horticola). Cockchafer [Melolontha vulga?-is), Mottled Umber jNIoth 

 {Ilyberiiia defoliuria), Nut-tree Tussock JMoth {Demas coryli) ; Wood — Wood 

 Leopard Moth [Zcuzcra cesculi). 



CONSIANTINOPLE HAZEL, Corylus Colurua. 



Gardens, plantations. March, April. This is one of the strongest-growing 

 of all the Hazels, and seedlings are used as standards for grafting varieties in 

 March. 



/^/orcrr.? green, longer and larger than Cor^/«,y ^t'c//««rt; Fruit a small nut, 

 involucre double, exterior bract many-partite, interior 3-partite, divisions pal- 

 mate ; seeds insipid. 



Leaves alternate, roimdish ovate, cordate, serrated, stipules lanceolate, 

 acuminate. 



A deciduous tree, 40 60 ft. ; with broad spreading head ; Branches horizontal. 



Introduced from Asia Minor, 1605. Also called Turkish Hazel. 



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