322 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
finding, and eae shpervor have been enabled, in some Pree 
this “ progressive ” o keep pace with the sublime nae of 
cena ha and Spe Rappings, as well as with the lucrative 
nufacture of Panaceas, and- Indian Specifies. It is indeed both hu- 
miliating and discou Eaaog to dputmarplrs the facility with which a 
ete portion of mankind can be made the dupes of such miserable 
mapery: 
2, C. America’na, Marshall. Leaves orbicular-cordate, acuminate ; 
pe ovate ; involucre ventricose-campanulate, much larger than the 
nut, with the limb compressed, dilated, lacerately many-cleft. 
American Coryitus. Hazle-nut. Wild Filbert. 
4- — high, slender, branching,—the young branches virgate, pubes- 
and g maccinr- bin ispid ves 3-6 in nches long, tt from roundish-cordate to 
peak and eee dentate- serrate, pubescent ; petioles one-fourth of an inch to an inch 
long. Stipules const lanceolate, caducous. Aments preceding the leaves, 1-2 inc ches long. 
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dunculate squamose a patorad SO scales finally rging, oer’ 
@ involueres of the nuts. subglobose h ee 
aather wider tl lo Fe sengree embraced i the sabooriacoous cng 
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5. CARPI’NUS, ZL. Hornseam. 
[The ancient classical name.] 
AMINATE Fy, in lateral drooping os with simple ovate scale-like 
-bracts, without a proper calyx. Stamens 12 at the base of each bract ; 
- anthers 1-celled, hairy at apex. Pisriuiare Fu. i in peirav with anal de- 
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minal boat Inaetiliot racemes. Ovary eel Sti he fil form. "Nuls 
- fae — ovoid, sub-compressed, striate-ribbed, stalked,.each with 
open and leaf-like peg Siirubs or small trees 
ith obtasely an ad irregularly ridged trunks, a thin smooth ash-colored 
bark, and flowers preceding the leaves. 
1, CG. America’ na, Mz. Leaves ovate-oblong, doubly serrate; involu- 
cres 3-lobed, sub-hastate, unequally cut-t oothed on one side. 
American Carpinus. Horn-beam. Iron Wood. Water Beech. 
Stem 10 — 20 feet high, oftenbranched from the root, and growing in clusters. Leaves 
2-4 inches long ; petioles 14 — Py Hegre Pistiliatz aments 2—3 3 inches long. 
Ewolucres finally ‘ about an inch long. MNuds about 8-ribbed. emocthish, a aiptre x 
Margins of streams, &c.: common. FI. Aj ey 
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