CoP.YLUS. 



CUPULIFERyE. 



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2. Couylus rostrata, Ait. Beaked Hazel-nut. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, doubly serrate ; involucre prolonged above the fruit into 

 a narrow tubular beaK, which is laciniately toothed at the summit. — Ait. Kew. (ed. 2.) 2. 

 p. 364 ; " Willd. arb. p. 80. t. l.f. 2 ;" Michx. fl. 2. p. 201 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 635 ; Nutt. 

 gen. 2. p. 216 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 357 , Ell. sk. 2. p. 612 ; Torr. compend. p. 354 (bis) ; 

 Beck, hot. p. 332 ; Hook. fl. Bor-Avi. 2. p. 160 ; Loud. enc. tr. ij- shr. p. 925. 



A shrub 2-5 feet high, with slender smooth branches. Leaves about three inches long, 

 somewhat cordate at the base, pubescent (especially on the veins) underneath, smoothish 

 above : petioles hairy, 3-5 lines long. Involucre of the fruit nearly two inches long ; the 

 lower part closely enveloping the nut, and densely :lothed with stiff hairs ; the upper part 

 tubular and smoothish, cut at the extremity into several unequal acute teeth. 



Mountain woods and banks of rivers ; frequent north and west of the Highlands. Fl. 

 April. Fr. September. Easily distinguished from the preceding by its narrow leaves and 

 the long beak of the involucre. 



4. QUERCUS. Linn.; Endl. gen. 1845. oak. 



[ Sai'l to be derived from (he Celtic words quer, beautiful, and cuez, a tree ] . 



Sterile fl. in long slender pendulous amenis, without bracts. Calyx 6 - 8 -parted ; the 

 segments unequal, mostly entire. Stamens 6 - 10 : filaments slender : anthers 2 -celled. 

 Fertile fl. Several together on erect axillary peduncles, or sessile on a rachis. Involucre 

 1 -flowered, consisting of numerous closely imbricated scales, in fruit becoming an indurated 

 cup surrounding the base of the nut. Ovary 3-celled, with two suspended collateral ovules 

 in each cell, becoming in fruit an ovoid or roundish 1 -seeded nut. — Trees or shrubs, with 

 stipulate often looed or serrated leaves. Flowers inconspicuous, greenish white ; the sterile 

 aments usually several together. Pubescence stellate. 



* Fruit biennial, sessile. 

 f Lea:ri entire. 



1. Q.UEROUS Phellos, Linn. (Plate CIV.) Willow Oak. Peach-leaved Oak. 



Leaves deciduous, narrowly lanceolate, acute at each end, very entire ; cup saucer-shaped ; 

 nut somewhat globose. — Linn. sp. 2. p. S94 ; Ablot, ins. Georg. 2. t. 91 ; Michx. Querc. 

 t. 12, and fl. 2. p 97; Michx. f. sylv. 1. t. 14 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 625; Torr. compend. 

 p. 357 ; Beck, hot. p. 328. 



A tree 30 - 50 feet high and 12-18 inches in diameter, with a smoothish bark. Leaves 

 3-4 inches long and 6-8 lines broad, light green, smooth, often a little undulate on the 

 margin, sometime? toolhed in the young state. Acorns nearly sessile ; the cup shallow ; the 

 scales closely appressed : nut dark brown when ripe, nearly spherical or somewhat depressed : 

 kernel bitter. 



Sandy rather moist woods : Suffolk county, Long Island. Fl. April. Fr. October. The 

 wood of this Oak is reddish and coarse-grained. It is not much esteemed. 



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