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place [Avella, near Xaples] where they had been most successfully 

 propajTated." The young forked twigs of this shrub constitute the cel- 

 ebrated divining rod with which certain imposters beyond the Atlantic 

 prrtond to discover the localities of precious metals and subterranean 



fountains. The imposture, and the credulity on which it operated, have 

 both reached our shores: but the Filbert not being indigenous here, a 

 capital substitute was discovered in the Witch Hazel (Hamamelis) ! 

 The twigs of Peach trees also, have been found to answer the purpose 

 nearly as well as the \Yitch Hazel ; and thus the occult sciences of orc- 



FiG. 220. A flo-.verins: branch of the cnltirated Filbert or Hazel-nut (Corylus Arellana). 

 the staininate flowers in long aments, the pistillato ones in small bud-like' clusters. 221. 



scale from the aments. showing the anthers beneath it. 222. A pistillate flower with 

 the involucre spread open. 223. A branch iu fruit, the nut surrounded by the enlarged 

 l&d'y involiicrc. 



