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long in one year ; and sometimes nearly as much in the climate of London. It 
will grow in almost any soil, but does best in one similar to that adapted for the 
common hazel. It is easily propagated by seed, grafts, or layers. Grafting 
onthe common hazel is, however, the most general way, as the nut often 
proves abortive. 
= 3. C. rostRa‘TA Ait. The beaked, American, 
or Cuckold, Hazel. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 364. ; Michx. Amer., 2. P- 201. 
Synony mess C. sylvéstris, &«. Gron. Virg. 151.3; C. cornita Hort. 
ngraving. Our fig. 1727. from a specimen in the British Museum 
gathered in autumn, and showing the male catkins beginning to 
develope themselves. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stipules linear-lanceolate. Leaves 
ovate-oblong, acuminate. Involucre of the fruit 
tubular, campanulate, larger than the nut, 2-partite ; 
divisions inciso-dentate. (Willd.) A bushy deci- 
duous shrub. Canada to Carolina, on mountains. 
Height 4 ft. to 5 ft. Introduced in 1745. Flowers 
and fruit as in the common hazel. 
Resembling the common European hazel, but dis- 
tinguisbed from it by its fruit being covered with the 
calyx, which is prolonged in the form of a long very 
hairy beak; and hence the name. 1727. G. rostrata. 
& 4, C. americawa Miche. The American Hazel. 
Identification. Michx. Amer., 2. p. 210.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 471. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 
1836, 
Synonymes. C. americana himilis Wang. Amer. 88. t. 29. f.63.; Dwarf Cuckold Nut, 
wild Filbert, Amer. 
Engravings. Wang. Amer., 88. t, 29. f. 63. ; and our fig. 1728. 
Spec. Char. §c. Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminate. Invo- 
lucre of the fruit roundish, campanulate, longer than the nut ; 
limb spreading, dentately serrated. (Willd.) A deciduous 
shrub. Canada to Florida, in low shady woods. Height 4 ft. 
to 8ft. Introduced in 1798. Flowers and fruit as in the 
common hazel. 
1728. C.ameri- Tt differs from C. 
rostrata about as 
much as the filbert from the 
European hazel. The calyx is 
larger than the included nut, 
the flavour of the kernel of 
which is said to be very fine. 
C. feroxr Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
t. 87., and our jig. 1729., in 
which a is the nut with its 
deeply laciniated calyx; 4, the 
nut ; ec, the kernel; and d, a 
longitudinal section of the nut, 
with the kernel enclosed. The 
leaves are oblong, and much 
pointed. Stipules linear-lance- 
olate. Nut compressed, and 
half the length of the villous, 
2-parted, ragged, and spinous 
involucre. (Wall.) A decidu- 
ous tree, 20 ft. high, with a 
trunk sometimes 2 ft. in cir- 
cumference, and somewhat 
glabrous ash-coloured _ bark. 1729. C. Rerox. 
