100 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 
51. Hornbeam. Closely related to the beeches are two 
little trees which have delicate birchlike foliage and wood 
of great hardness, —the hornbeam, or blue beech, and 
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the hop hornbeam, 
or ironwood. 
The leaves of 
these two varieties 
are quite similar, that of the ironwood being somewhat 
the larger. 
The name hop hornbeam is derived from the fruit, 
which resembles the hop, and the name ironwood from 
the great strength and hardness of the wood. 
Fic. 110. Ironwood, or Hop Hornbeam 
