CLASS XXI. ORDER VII. | CARPINUS. 1215 
dom of Naples, near which in a valley they grew in great abundance, 
and were extensively exported, yielding, it is said, at one time an 
annual profit of about £12,000 sterling. And the word Hasel-nut is 
derived from the Anglo-Saxon Hasel-nuter ; Hasel, a cup, in allusion 
to the shape of the involucre; and Anutu, a nut. 
There are few persons who have enjoyed the privilege in their 
youth of having lived in the rural districts of our country, but have 
looked forward with delight to the enjoyments of each period of the 
year as it rolls on in its changes, who do not look back with 
delight to those days when in their maturer years the cares and 
realities of life encompass them ; and perhaps there is no period of our 
youth to which the mind recurs with greater pleasure than the “ nutting 
season,’ wken we saw the rich brown clusters hang drooping in 
their matured garb, and all surrounding nature seemed luxuriating in 
the full accomplishment of its summer’s influence. 
“ It seems a day, 
(1 speak of one from many singled out), 
One of those heavenly days which cannot die, 
When, in the eagerness of boyish hope, 
I left our cottage-threshold, sallying forth 
With a huge wallet o’er my shoulders hung, 
A nutting crook in hand, and turned my steps 
Towards the distant woods, a Figure quaint 
Tricked out in proud disguise in cast off weeds, 
Which for that service had been husbanded, 
By exhortation of my frugal dame. 
* * * * * 
———— And unless I now 
Confound the present feelings with the past, 
Even then when from the bower I turned away 
Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of Kings, 
I felt a sense of pain when I beheld 
The silent trees and the intruding sky.” 
GENUS XXIV. CARPI’NUS.—Liyy. Hornbeam. 
Nat. Ord. CUPpuULIFE’R&. RicH. 
= 
Gen. Coan. Barren flowers in’ long cylindrical catkins, its scales 
roundish, ciliated at the base. Stamens eight to twenty. 
Fertile flowers in lax catkins, its scales large, leafy, three lobed, 
single flowered. Perianth scale-shaped, three lobed, two flowered, 
adhering to the ovary. Ovarium two celled, one abortive. 
Styles two. Fruit an ovate striated one seeded nué.—Name 
from the Celtic car, wood; and pin, a head ; so called from the 
wood haying been used to make the yokes of oxen. 
