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I. C. Avelldiia (Common Hazel). — A shrub or small tree with 

 grey bark on stem, brown, hairy, and glandular on shoots ; haves 

 roundish, obliquely cordate, irregularly serrate, pointed, plaited 



QU^RCL'S R6ErR {Co!>!>ucn Onk). 



parallel to the midrib in bud ; flowers preceding the leaves ; 

 stamiuate calkins i — 2 in. long, drooping,* yellow; carpellate 

 flowers in small, sessile, ovoid, erect heads, with imbricate brads 

 and crimson stigmas. — ^^'oods : 

 February, March. 



abundant. — Fl, 

 Perennial. 



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deciduous (or, 



(Oak). — Trees with 

 in foreign species, 

 evergreen) leaves ; slaimiiate flowers 

 in a slender, drooping, interrupted 

 catkin ; stamens 10, with slender, 

 e.vserted filaments ; carpellate flowers 

 few, each enclosed in numerous 

 imbricate scales, forming a cup in 

 the fruit ; ovary 3-chambered, 6- 

 ovuled ; jruit or acorn i-seeded. 

 (Name, the Classical Latin name of 

 the tree.) 



I. Q. Robur (Common Oak). — A large tree, with deeplv fur- 

 rowed, corky Ja;';^ ; i\gziLgbra>7ches ; obovate-oblong, sinuate /caiifS 

 with blunt lobes, with or without stalks ; flowers appearing with the 

 leaves ; cup with numerous, adpressed, triangular, blunt scales. 

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