TT, 4. THE BEAKED HAZEL. 173 
rods for the detecting and finding out of minerals; at least, if 
that tradition be no wnposture.” 
THe Bearep Hazer. C. Rostrata. Aiton. 
This is a somewhat smaller shrub than the common hazel, 
being from two to six feet in height, and it is of much less fre- 
quent occurrence. Yet there are few country towns in which 
the boys are not acquainted with the taste of its nuts. The 
recent shoots are brown and smooth, sprinkled with a few 
gray dots. ‘The older branches are rough and darker, and the 
stem a grayish brown. The Jeaves are on very short, nearly 
smooth footstalks, pear-shaped, narrowed towards the base, 
and heart-shaped, ending in a point, doubly and irregularly 
serrate, smooth above, somewhat downy or hairy beneath. The 
nut is small and roundish, enclosed in a bristly husk which fits 
its shape at the base, but is lengthened into a jageed beak at 
the extremity, like a narrow, long-necked bottle. By this it is 
easily distinguished from the common hazel, as well as by the 
inferiority in the size and quality of the nuts. ‘These grow on 
the ends of the branches, in bunches of two to eight or nine; 
most of which never come to perfection. 
This is a northern species. Dr. Richardson found it in Can- 
ada, as far north as the Saskatchawan. On the highest moun- 
tains of the Alleghany range, it occurs in the southwestern part 
of the country. 
Messrs. Prince, of Long Island, found that the European hazel 
grows perfectly well in our climate; a single bush annually 
producing half a bushel of filberts. 
The Constantinople hazel is a tree of sometimes fifty or sixty 
feet in height. 
