390 79. COXIFEE2E. 



9. COR'YLTTS Linn. Hazel. 



1. C. Avelldna (L.) ; stip. oblong blunt, I. roundish-cordate 

 acuminate, involucre of the ovoid fr. bellshaped spreading torn 

 at the margin. E. B. 723. A shrubby tree. Young twigs 

 hairy and glandular. L. downy beneath. Male catkins long, 

 pendulous. Fern. fl. in ovoid buds. Stigmas bright crimson. 

 Hedges and copses. Sh. III. IV. Hazel Nut. E. S. I. 



10. CARPI'NUS Linn. Hornbeam. 



1. C. Bet' nlm (L.) ; scales of the fruit 3-parted, segments 

 lanceolate, the middle one longest. JE. It. 2032. A small tree. 

 L. ovate, acute, plaited when young, deeply and sharply doubly 

 serrate. Damp clayey woods and hedges. T. V. E. 



Division V. GYMNOSPERMJL 



Ovules ard seeds apparently naked. Carpel spread out flat. 

 No calyx, no corolla. 



Order LXXIX. CONIFEB JS. 



Fl. monoecious or dioecious. Barren fl. of one or more mona- 

 delphous stamens, in a deciduous catkin, about a common axis. 

 Anth. of 2 or more lobes bursting outwards, often ending in a 

 scalelike crest. Fertile fl. usually in cones, sometimes solitary. 

 Ovary spread open in the shape of a scale and placed in the axil 

 of a membranous bract ; in the solitary fl. apparently wanting. 

 Ovules naked in pairs on the face of the ovary and inverted ; or 

 ^in the solitary fl.) erect. [Or, as some think : ovaries in pairs 

 (or several), inverted, on a scale (which becomes the cone-scale) 

 situated in the axil of a bract : each of 2 connate carpels having 

 together the form of a horseshoe or ring and ultimately pro- 

 ducing a wing ; ovule between the carpels, its tips exposed ; or 

 erect, the 2 carpels uniting in the form of a cup, without a car- 

 pellary scale.] Fr. a cone, or solitary seed. Testa hard, crus- 

 taceous. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. Radicle next 

 the apex. Woody tissue marked with circular disks ; without 

 medullary rays or proper vascular tissue. 



Tribe I. TAXINEJS. Male fl. in catkins. Fern. fl. solitary, 

 naked or bracteate, erect ; no carpellary scale. 



1. TAXUS. Catkins of male fl. oval, scaly below, flowering 

 at the top. Stain, many . Anth. peltate, 3 8-ceUed. Fein. 



