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enlarged and leaf-like at the base of the mature fruit. What developed nut and involucre attached to the same bract ; 



finally forms the leafy husk or involucre around the nut or both flowers may be abortive, their place being indi- 



e.xists around the young ovary as a little girdle or two tiny cated in late summer by the enlarged bract and involucres 



scales with laciniate edges. crowded among the fully developed fruits. 



Fig. 48. — Corylus rostrata. — See paoje 3^4. 



1. Flowering branch. 2. Scale from male amenl. - 3. Stamen. 4. Bud witli female flowers. 5. Scale with two female flowers. 6. Pistil. 7. Fruiting 



branch. S, g, lo, ii. Different forms of fruit. 12. Winter branchlet. 



Very often one of the two flowers on the bract is not far- Among many interesting Japanese plants which are 



tilized or does not develop, but the involucre grows consid- identical with or nearly related to our eastern American 



erably and may be found crowded near the base of its species, there is a Beaked Hazel very similar to ours, and 



companion flower and ovary, which has grown into a fully v.'hich the botanist IMaximowicz regarded as a variety of it, 



