OCTANDBJA. DIGYNIA. Corylus. 
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ton Castle, near Sunderland, and Castle Eden Dean. Mr. Winch. Frith 
Wood, and other Beech woods, near Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. In a 
wood near Tyfry, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Stank-hill farm, near War¬ 
wick; Warwick Castle mount. Perry. In Selborne-Hanger and the 
High-wood, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. Bothwell-woods, near Glasgow. 
Hopkirk. Roslin. Grev. Edin. In the forest around Neville Holt, Leices¬ 
tershire. E.) S. March—April.* 
(D. Cneorum. Flowers terminal, sessile, crowded; leaves spear-shaped, 
mucronate; berry juiceless: said to have been once found about two 
miles from Beddgelart, by the road leading to Carnarvon, not far from the 
place where the ascent to the summit of Snowdon commences, has en¬ 
tirely eluded the researches of Mr. Griffith and other Botanists familiar 
with that district. E.) 
DIGYNIA. 
COR/YLUS. B. and F. flowers on the same plant: Bloss. 
none. 
B. Cal . one leaf, three-cleft, resembling a scale, con¬ 
taining one flower. 
F. Cal. two-leaved, ragged: Nut egg-shaped, (one- 
celled, invested with the coriaceous calyx. E.) 
C. AvELLA^NA.t (Stipulae ovate, obtuse: leaves roundish, heart-shaped, 
pointed: twigs hairy. E.) 
(Hook. FI. Lond. — E. Bot. 723. E.) — Blackw. 293— Hunt. Evel. 220; i. p. 
213. Ed. \\—Knipli. 1— Lonic. i. 30. 1— Trag. 1096— Matth. 281 —Park. 
1415. 5— Gars. 223— Sped, de la Nat. 32. 2. in ii. p. 292— Nat. Delin. 20. 
4. in ii. p. 312— Lob. Ic. ii. 192. 2— Ger. Em. 1438. 2— Ger. 1250. 2— 
Fuchs. 398. 
(A small tree; leaves appearing after the flowers. Sterile flowers in droop¬ 
ing catkins, one to two inches long. E.) The exserted styles being of a vivid 
crimson have a beautiful appearance in March, when the bud-like catkins 
expand. Woodw. Catkins in pairs, yellowish green. Scale , the middle 
* Very happy effects have been experienced from this plant in rheumatic fevers. It 
operates rather severely as a cathartic. It is an efficacious medicine in worm cases ; and 
upon many accounts deserves to be better known to physicians ; but in less skilful hands 
it would be dangerous, as it is possessed of considerable acrimony. The whole plant has 
the same qualities, but the bark of the root is. the strongest. Dr. Alston fixes the largest 
dose at ten grains. (Mr. Salisbury records the case of a man who took the powdered leaves 
medicinally, and died in consequence in a few hours in great agony.—The Wood-laurel, 
being hardy and of ready growth, forms the stocks on which the more ornamental species of 
Daphne are grafted. The flowers diffuse a grateful odour, especially in an evening, and 
will be acceptable in apartments to those who delight in floral perfumes. The ripe black 
berries are ornamental, but are so favourite a food with the smaller birds, that they seldom 
long remain. E.) 
j* (From Avellino, a city of Naples, in the neighbourhood of which nuts (the round 
Spanish), are cultivated in great abundance, and to which part of Italy they were originally 
introduced from Pontus, and thence known to the Romans by the name of Nux Pontica p 
till afterwards changed to Nux Avellana. E.) 
