Description of Foreign Shrubs 
81. European Hazel-nut. (Corylus avellana, with var. atro- 
purpurea.) 
LEAF * 3'-4’, simple, alternate, serrate, slightly roundish, base 
cordate, downy when young. FLOWER: staminate in slender 
dense catkins ; fertile in a small ‘‘head”’; oval nut, 1’ long, en- 
closed in deeply lobed involucre of about same length; young 
shoots bristly. Var. atropurpurea has dark purple foliage which 
becomes almost green by fall. 
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