MAST-BEARING FAMILY 



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i. C. Avelldna (Common Hazel). — A shrub or small tree with 

 grey bark on stem, brown, hairy, and glandular on shoots ; leaves 

 roundish, obliquely cordate, irregularly serrate, pointed, plaited 



QUfiRCUS r6bur (Common Oak).. 



parallel to the midrib in bud ; flowers preceding the leaves ; 

 staminate catkins i — 2 in. long, drooping, yellow ; carpellate 

 flowers in small, sessile, ovoid, erect heads, with imbricate bracts 

 and crimson stigmas. — Woods ; 

 abundant. — Fl. February, March. 

 Perennial. 



5. Quercus (Oak). — Trees with 

 deciduous (or, in foreign species, 

 evergreen) leaves ; staminate flowers 

 in a slender, drooping, interrupted 

 catkin; stamens 10, with slender, 

 exserted filaments ; carpellate flowers 

 few, each enclosed in numerous 

 imbricate scales, forming a cup in 

 the fruit ; ovary 3-chambered, 6- 

 ovuled ; fruit or acorn 1 -seeded. 

 (Name, the Classical Latin name of 

 the tree.) 



1. Q. Robur (Common Oak). — A large tree, with deeply fur- 

 rowed, corky bark ; zigzag branches ; obovate-oblong, sinuate leaves 

 with blunt lobes, with or without stalks ; flowers appearing with the 

 leaves ; cup with numerous, adpressed, triangular, blunt scales. 



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