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The Hazle. The catkins are brown, and the female Sowers 
Corylus vulgaris, are red. 
This is a fhrub of ten feet high. It is common in hedges and woods. 
The bark is brown. 
The leaves are roundifh, rough on the furface, 
ferrated, and fharp-pointed. 
C. Bauhine calls it Corylus vulgaris. 
Ge ee Esa 
BEECH. 
BAS G'S ORS? 
Aree male flowers compofe a kind of globular catkin: they are formed of a one-leaved cup, di- 
vided into five parts; and have no petals, but numerous filaments. The female flower is en- 
clofed in a bud ; and confifts of 4 cup, divided into four fegments, which afterwards harden, and form 
a covering or fhell to the fruit. This is compofed of large feeds laid clofe together. 
The Beech. | The flowers are greenifh; and the fruit, or 
Fagus vulgaris. maft, when ripe, is hard and brown. 
¥ It is common in woods. 
The tree is large, the bark fmooth and pale. ©. Bauhing. and alliotticrs; call tc Faeus? 
> US. 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and of a dufky 
green. 
Gt eteeeN: «US IV. 
CHESNUT. 
Co ALS. AN ESSA. 
“FIT, male flowers are difpofed in long catkins, and are of the fame ftru€ture with thofe of the 
beech. The female flowers are alfo of the fame form with thofe of beech: the fruit is 
larger. c 
Common Chefnut Tree. The catkins are of a whitifh ereen, and the 
Caftanea vulgaris. fruit very large. 
"The tree is large, and fpreads out into many It is wild in fome of our woods, and culti- 
branches : vated every where for its fruit. 
The leaves are long, ferrated, fharp-pointed, C. Bauhine calls it Caftanea fylvefiris. 
and of a beautiful dark green. 
Gites RNR eS V. 
OLA SK. 
OFUSE RC U,.S. 
Aes male flowers make a loofe catkin: each confifts of acup, divided into five fegments, and 
feveral threads. ‘The female flowers are enclofed in a kind of buds. The cup is half round, 
and undivided ; and contains an oval rudiment, which afterwards becomes the acorn, 
1. The Oak. ? The fruit needs no defcription. 
Quercus vulgaris. We have one other fpecies, diftinguifhed by - 
- ; ; the fhortnefs of the footftalk, which fupports the 
The tree grows to a vaft height and bignefs, | acorn, 
fpreading into innumerable and irregular branches. 
The leaves are large, oblong, obtufe, deeply | 2. Oak, with acorns on fhort footttalks, Quer= 
finuated, and of a dark green. | cus latifolia mas brevi pediculo. 
Go Be. eUnws VI. 
Bosig Re 
A BUPA ESS: 
HIE male flowers are difpofed in racemous catkins; and confift only of filaments, with the 
fealy parts of the bud as cups. The fernale flowers are arranged many together in a common 
cup, of a conic form, and confift only of a rudiment of a fruit, with a fhort ftyle: one is lodged un. 
der every {cale of the cone. 
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