3820 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
ebay on rigid axillary peduncles about half an inch long. Muds pubescent, pale reddish 
sa pol moist woodlands : throughout the United States. Fl. May. Fr. September - 
October. 
O 
for many purposes,—such as 3 panestocks, and other Nanerned of the 
mechanic -_ The leaves, especially of young trees, are remarkably 
persistent, after they are killed by frost, often remaining on the branches 
until raed, in the ensuing spring. The oily seeds afford a nutritious food 
for svi swi 
The B Beech, a although a epee ve oe — tree, is any culti- 
vated in _— es either for shade or ornament. And yet it would 
seem, m’s Pastorals, that in ‘the land of sweet do nothing 
(* dolce ‘far biedte oy the Italian peas aged Ms ancient times found an en- 
viable enjoyment under its spreading bra 
——* patulae recutams sub tegmine Faci.”’ 
4. COR’YLUS, Tournef. Hazie-nvr. 
(Greek, Korys, a helmet, or cap ; in allusion to the involucrate fruit.] 
Stammnate Fr. Aments cylindric, with imbricated bracteal scales. 
Calyx m5 i soitahagan pe beneath the bract, aa all three united at 
$s 8; ant -celled, subsessi bris yata 
LATE Ft. from sub buds, in small elusters at the ends of the 
branches ; znvolucre of 2-3 (at first minute but subsequently enlarging 
villous leaflets, which are lacerate on the and coherent at base: 
wers. Calyx adherent to the ovary,—the limb very 
minute, denticulate, villous. Ovary 2-c ; ovules 2, 
elongated, filiform. Nut (by abortion) 1-seeded Fy oid, obtuse, 
subcompressed, bony, smooth, solitary m the peony at as oan lacerate- 
_ dentate mvolucre. Shrubs: the flowers preceding the | 
. C. Avetta’na, L. Leaves orbicular cordate, acuminate; stipules 
ovate-oblong, chain: : Gosoes about the length of the fruit. 
AVELLAN Coryius. Filbert. Hazle-nut. 
Stem 6 -10 feet high, branching from the base. Leaves 3-5 inches gn. often obovate- 
cordate serral 
scaly clusters,—the sc or bracts) enlarging, uniting and forming logo mens 
mas purple. Nuts rather large. 
Yards, &c. Native of Asia Minor. Fl. March. Fr. Sept. 
Obs. The yeh & or Popes of the old world is now becoming 
own among uently cultivated. “The bushes 
were originally imported sip ih aly from 
by the ap’ 
was Saas 
‘progress of time 
Fe at Shae wibieky in teat Rae 
rena er t of Ment Avellana 5 8 : 
