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tRBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



S» :>. ft ROSTRA V TA Ait, 



Identification. Ait. Hort Kew., 



Amer.. 8. D. 801 ; N. Du Hani 



>- ■•;.•>•. c'. sylvestris, \c., G 



The beaked, American, or Cuckold, Hazel. 



I p. 961 ; ed, 2., 5. p. 80S.; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 471.; Michx. 

 4. p. SI. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 on. J'irg., 151. ; C. cornuta Hort. 



S . ( . ., Av. Stipules linear-lanceolate. Leaves ovate-oblong, acumi- 

 nate. Involucre of the fruit tubular, campanulate, larger than the nut, 2- 

 partite; divisions inciso-dentate. {Willd.) C. rostrata is a bushy shrub, 

 seldom exceeding 4 ft. or 5 ft. in height, resembling the common European 

 hazel, but distinguished 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. The kernel is sweet, but not worthy of cultivation for the table. 

 The plant is found, according to Pursh (ii. p. 635.), on mountains, from 

 Canada to Carolina ; but is not common on the plains, and rarely occurs 

 so far south as Boston. The American hazel was introduced into Eng- 

 land, in 1745, by Archibald Duke of Argyll, but has never been much cul- 

 tivated. Plants, in the London nurseries, are Is. each ; at Bollwyller, 

 2 francs ; and at New York, 25 cents. 



sk 4. C. america v na Michx. The American Hazel. 



Identification. Michx. Amer., 2. p. 210.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 471. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. C. am. humilis Wang. Amer., 88. t. 29. f. 63. ; Dwarf Cuckold Nut, wild Filbert, Amer. 

 Engraving. Wang. Amer., 88. t. 29. f. 63. 



Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminate. Involucre of the 

 fruit roundish, campanulate, longer than the nut ; limb spreading, dentately 

 serrated. {Willd.) The American hazel is a shrub, growing, according to 

 Pursh, to the height of from 4 ft. to 8 ft. It 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. 

 It is found in low shady woods from Canada to Florida. It was intro- 

 duced, in 1798, by the Marchioness of Bute, Plants, in the London 

 nurseries, are 2s. each ; at Bollwyller, 1^ francs ; and at New York, 25 cents. 



App. i. Species o/Corylus 

 not yet introduced. 



C.Jerox Wall. PI. As. Rar., t. 87., and 

 our Jig. 1950., in which a is the nut with 

 its deeply laciniatcd calyx; b the nut; 

 c the kernel ; and d a longitudinal 

 section of the nut, with the kernel en- 

 closed. The leaves are oblong, and 

 much pointed. Stipules linear-lanceolate. 

 Nut compressed, and half the length of 

 the villous, 2-parted, ragged, and spinous 

 involucre. {Wall.) " A native of the top 

 ot the mountain Sheopur, in Nepal; 

 flowering in September, and bearing 

 fruit in December. A tree, 20ft. high, 

 with a trunk sometimes 2 ft. in circum. 

 , and Knnewhat glabrous ash- 

 coloured bark, branches twiggy, smooth, 

 cylindrical, brownish, dotted ; the young 



.iv. Budi conical-oblong, co- 



xtcrnally with soft down. Leaves 



- \ in long, covered on hoth sides 



with adpns-.ed down : dark green ahove ; 



rough, and of ■ pale colour, beneath. 



od of tin- tree is light, compact, 



and of ■ pale tinge. The nut |fl mull, 



and preciaelj like the common hazel nut 



•| be -in ii I- i iceedingly hard 



and thick. " [Wall. PI. As. /tar., t. 87.) 



j no\ been ret Intro- 



bUt, from the elevation of its 



habitat, it would doubtless prove 

 I rom the laeiniated calyx ot 



thi» nut, it HHmeil nearly allied to 



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