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Schley pecans.—A choice thin-shelled cultivated variety of the preceding. 
Grown near Albany, Georgia, and donated by E. W. Given, of Newark, 
New Jersey. 
Van Deman pecan.—Another cultivated variety of the same. Same source 
and donor. 
Stewart pecan.—Another cultivated variety of the same. Same source and 
donor. 
Filbert. European hazelnut.—The fruits of Corylus AvelanaL. (Betulaceae 
—Birch Family). Native of Europe and cultivated. Donated by the 
Koerber Nut-meat Co., of New York. 
The kernels (seeds) of the same, removed from their shells.. Same donor. 
Shelled Spanish filberts——Shelled filberts grown in Spain. Same donor. 
Shelled Turkish filberts—Shelled filberts grown in Turkey. Same donor. 
American hazelnut.—Fruiting leafy branches of Corylus americana Walt. 
Native of eastern North America. Collected by H. H. Rusby at Oscawanna 
Lake, New York, September, 1918. 
The nuts of the same, in their husks. Same locality and donor. 
The same removed from the husks. Same source. 
Picture of the beaked hazelnut, C. rostrata Ait. Native of eastern North 
America. 
The fruiting leafy branches of the same. Collected by R. S. Williams in 
the New York Botanical Garden, September 13, 1919. 
.I. The nuts of the same, freed from their husks. 
THE BEECH FAMILY (Fagaceae) 
American chestnut.—Fruiting leafy branches of Castanea dentata (Marsh.) 
Borkh. Native of eastern and central North America. Collected in the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Another sample of the same. 
The nuts of the same, removed from the tree. Same source. 
Paragon chestnut.—A large-fruited form of the preceding. Grown at 
Marlboro, New York, by James H. Staples. 
European, or Spanish, chestnut—The nuts of Castanea Castanea (L.) 
Sudw. Native of Asia and Europe and cultivated. From the New York 
market. 
Another sample of the same. Grown at Aconcagua, Chile. 
Picture of the same species. 
Chinquapin. Dwarf chestnut.—Leafy fruiting branches of Castanea pumila 
(L.) Mill. Native of the southeastern United States. 
Nuts of the same, removed from the bur. Presented by S. B. Penick, of 
New York. 
False, or Californian, chestnut. Oak chestnut. Californian chinquapin. 
Fruiting leafy branches of Castanopsis chrysophylla A. DC. Native of 
California. Collected by H. H. Rusby at Mount Tamalpais, California, 
July, 1909. 
White oak. Stone oak.—The fruiting leafy branches of Quercus alba L. 
Native of eastern and central North America. 
