Tlie BRITISH HERBAL. 
The Hazle. 
Corylus vulgaris. 
This is a fhrub of ten feet high. 
The baric is brown. 
The leaves are roundilli, rough on the furface, 
ferrated, and Iharp-poinced. 
The catkins are brown, and the female fiowers 
are red. 
It is common in hedges and woods. 
C. Bauhine calls it Corylus -vulgaris. 
G 
N U 
BEECH. 
III. 
F yl G U S. 
THE male flowers compofe a kind of globular catk'm : they are formed of a one-leaved cup, di- 
vided into five parts ; and have no petals, but numerous filaments. The female flower is en- 
cloffd in a bud ; and confifts of a cup, divided into four fegments, which afterwards harden, and form 
a coverin-' or fliell to the fruit. This is compofed of large feeds laid clofe together. 
The Beech. 
Fa^iis vulgaris. 
The tree is large, the bark fmooth and pale. 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and of a dufty 
green. 
The flowers are greenilh ; and the fruit, or 
naft, when ripe, is hard and brown. 
It is common in woods. 
C. Bauhine, and all others, call it Fa^us,' 
GENUS IV. 
C H E S N U T. 
CASTANEJ. 
THE male flowers are difpofed in long catkins, and are of the fame flirufture with thofe of the 
beech. The female flowers are alfo ^of the fame form with thofe of beech : the fruit is 
larger. 
Common Chefnut Tree. 
Cajianea vulgaris. 
The tree is large, and fpreads out into many 
branches. 
The leaves are long, ferrated, Iharp-pointed, 
and of a beautiful dark green. 
The catkins are of a whitilh green, and the 
fruit very large. 
It is wild in fome of our woods, and culti- 
vated every where for its fruit. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cajiar.ea fyhejiris. 
GENUS V. 
OAK. 
S^^U E R C U S. 
THE male flowers make a Icofe catkin : each confifts of a cup, divided into five fegments, and 
feveral threads. The female flowers are enclofed in a kind of buds. The cup is half round, 
and undivided ; and contains an oval rudiment, which afterwards becomes the acorn. 
1. The Oak. 
Sluercus vulgaris. 
The tree grows to a vaft height and bignefs, 
fpreading into innumerable and irregular branches. 
The leaves are large, oblong, obtufc, deeply 
finuatcd, and of a dark green. 
The fruit needs no defcription. 
We have one other fpecies, difliinguiflied by 
the fliortnefs of the footftalk, which fupports the 
acorn. 
2. Oak, with acorns on fliort footftalks, i^fr- 
cus latifalia mas hrevi pediculo. 
GENUS VI. 
F I R. 
ABIES. 
THE male flowers are difpofed in racemous catkins ; and confift; only of filaments, with the 
fcaly parts of the bud as cups. The female flowers are arranged many together in a common 
cup, of a conic form, and confifl: only of a rudiment of a fruit, with a Ihort ftylc : one is lodged un. 
der every fcale of the cone. 
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