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Castanea vesca, Zinneus. EUROPEAN CHESTNUT. Leaves acute at 
either end, teeth sharp; nuts 3¢ inch to I inch across, 2 to 3 ina bur. Native 
of Europe and Asia. 
Variety Americana, Michaux. AMERICAN CHESTNUT. Leaves acute at 
hase ; teeth less sharp and nuts smaller and sweeter than those of the European 
Chestnut. Native in the Park. 
* Castanea pumila, A/ichaux. CHINQUAPIN. Oblong leaves white and 
downy on the under surface; single nut ina bur. Nuts edible and sweet. A 
small native tree. 
Corylus. Haze.-Nut, FILBerT.t “ Involucre enclosing the large bony 
nut, leafy, coriaceous.”’ Sterile flowers in hanging cylindrical clusters, anthers 
of a single cell. 
* Corylus Americana, Walter. Witp Hazet-Nut. Pointed leaves 
. round, heart-shaped ; fruit enclosed in the 2 nearly separate, cut-toothed bracts, 
which are thickened at base. A common native. 
Corylus Avellana, Zinneus. CoMMON EuROPEAN HaAzeL-Nut.  Fruit- 
ing bracts distinct, cleft at the apex into palmate lobes. Native of the Medi- 
terranean region. Variety purpurea, Loudon, has purple leaves, and is 
sometimes called atropurpurea in gardens. 
Corylus Collurna, Zinn@us. CONSTANTINOPLE HAZEL. (Corylus Pontica, 
Koch.) Lower fruit-leaf ovate-lanceolate, somewhat divided, upper one 
larger, many-cleft, with the divisions long-pointed and much prolonged beyond 
the nut. Eastern Mediterranean region. 
Fagus. BrecuH. Staminate flowers in a small head; female cluster a 
cupule with 2 flowers, which when ripe is 4-parted and contains 2 sharp-angled 
triangular nuts. 
Fagus ferruginea, Aiton. AMERICAN BEECH. Leaves oblong or ovate, 
pointed, sharply toothed, the straight veins pointing to the teeth. A noble 
native tree, the wood of which is hard and valuable. Common in cold woods. 
Fagus sylvatica, Zinneus. EUROPEAN BEECH. Leaves broader and 
shorter, somewhat hairy, wavy-toothed, and some of the veins pointing to the 
notches of the leaves. There are the following varieties of it in the Park: 
colorata, 4/fh. De Candolle; is known in gardens as purpurea, or Purple 
Beech; has leaves variously purple or copper-colored. cristata, Loudon ; 
has the crisped leaves in small clusters. heterophylla, Loudon ; is sometimes 
called /aciniata and asflenifolia; its leaves are variously cut or incised. 
pendula, Zoddiges ; is a garden form with drooping branches. 
Ostrya. Hop HornseAM. Each ovary with two long stigmas, and this 
and the nut into which it develops-are in a closed bag. These bags are 
gathered into a hop-like fruit-cluster. The single species with which we are 

1 « Phillis 
Was shape into a nuttee tree, 
That all men it might see ; 
And after Phillis, Philiberd 
This tree was cleped.’’—From Loudon, p. 2017. 


