July 24, 1895.] 



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two inches long. This handsome tree, which is common The second species (see illustration below, on this page) 



at low elevations on the mountains of central Japan, has is less well known ; it is a more northern tree, growing 

 been in cultivation in the United States and Europe for only on the main island of the Japanese group at high 



Fig. 41. — Carpinus cordatn. — See page 294, 



I. A fiowering branch, natural size. 2. A scale of a staminafe ament witli stamens, enlar<;ed. 3. A scale of a pistillate anient with flowers, enlarged. 4. A fruiting 

 branch, natural size. 5. An involucre of tlie fruit, with its lateral lobe folded over the nut, natural size. 6. An involucre of the fruit, the lateral lobe turned 

 back to display the nut, natural size. 



many years, and is perfectly hardy in the neighborhood of elevations, its true home being in the deciduous-leaved 

 Boston, where there are now several shapely specimens forests of central and northern Yezo, where it is very com- 

 large enough to produce flowers and fruit. mon and the only Hornbeam, antl in Manchuria. On the 



