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79. CONIFERS. 
9. Cor'ylus Linn. Hazel. 
1. C. Avelldna (L.); stip. oblong blunt, 1. roundish-cordate 
acuminate, involucre of the ovoid fr. bellshaped spreading torn 
at the margin. — E. B. 723. — A shrubby tree. Young twigs 
hairy and glandular. L. downy beneath. Male catkins long, 
pendulous. Fern. 11. in ovoid buds. Stigmas bright crimson. — 
Hedges and copses. Sh. III. IV. Hazel, 2s ut. E. S. I. 
10. Caepi'nus Linn. em. ,icop. Hornbeam. 
1. C. Jiet'uliis (L.) ; scales of the fruit 3-parted, segments 
lanceolate, the middle one longest. — E. B. 2032. — A small tree. 
L. ovate, acute, plaited when young, deeply and sharply doubly 
serrate. — Damp clayey woods and hedges. T. V. E. 
Division V. GYMNOSPERM.^. 
Ovules and seeds apparently naked. Carpel spread out flat. 
No calyx, no corolla. 
Order LXXIX. CONIFER.^:. 
Fl. monoecious or dioecious. — Barren fl. of one or more mona- 
delphous stamens, in a deciduous catkin, about a common axis. 
Anth. of 2 or more lobes bursting outwards, often ending in a 
scalelike crest. — Fertile fl. usually in cones, sometimes solitary. 
Ovary spread open in the shape of a scale and placed in the axil 
of a membranous bract ; in the solitary fl. apparently wanting. 
Ovules naked in pairs on the face of the ovary and inverted ; or 
(in the solitary fl.) erect. [Or, as .some think : ovaries in pairs 
(or several), inverted, on a scale (which becomes the cone-scale; 
situated in the axil of a bract : each of 2 connate carpels having 
together the form of a horseshoe or ring and ultimately pro- 
ducing a wing ; ovule between the carpels, its tips exposed ; or 
erect, the 2 carpels uniting in the form of a cup, without a car- 
pellary scale.] Fr. a cone, or solitary seed. Testa hard, crus- 
taceous. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. Radicle next 
the apex. — Woody tissue marked with circular disks ; without 
medullary rays or proper vascular tissue. 
Tribe I. TAXINEJE. Male fl. in catkins. Fern. ti. solitary, 
naked or bracteate, erect ; no carf)ellary scale. 
1. Taxus. Catkins of male fl. oval, scaly below, flowering 
atthetop. iStam.many. Anth.peltate,3— 8-celled. Fern. 
