574 DODECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Carpinus, 
L. hyssopifolium;. (Leaves alternate, strap-spear-shaped: flowers ax¬ 
illary, solitary, with six stamens. E.) 
Hall. Jen. 6. 2. at p. 295— Jacq. Austr. 133—( [Purt. 2. E.)— E. Bot. 292— 
C. B. Pr. 108— J. B. iii. 792. 3—Ger. Em. 581. 2—Park. 220. 2 —Hall 
Jen. 6. 3. 
(A very diminutive plant compared with the preceding. Stems trailing, 
only branched near the root, purplish, leafy, rather stiff, an inch long. 
Leaves sessile, quite entire. Calyx tubular, with five or six open teeth. 
Petals six, bluish purple, white at the base, small. Stamens shorter 
than the calyx. E.) 
Hyssop-leaved Loose-strife or Grasspoly. Watery places, and 
where water has remained stagnant during the winter. Near the Wheat- 
sheaf Inn, five miles from Huntingdon, on the north road. Mr. Woodward. 
(In a wheat-field just beyond Barton Mere, near the direction post, on 
the road leading to Packenham and Barrow Bottom. Sir T. G. Cullum. 
In watery pits on the left hand of the first turnpike-gate on the Banbury 
road from Oxford. Sibthorp. In places where water sometimes stag¬ 
nates a little below Wilford Boat, Nottinghamshire. Peering. Between 
Staines and Laleham, in a marshy field by the road. Blackstone. 
Ditches near the Abbey Pond at Faversham. Jacob. On the road side 
near Gelli, towards Carmarthen. Evans. Badsey, near Evesham; stubble 
fields at Bretforton, Worcestershire. Purton. E.) A. July—Aug. 
DIGYNIA. 
CAR PINUS. B. and F. flowers on the same plant : Bloss. 
none : Cal. one leaf, a fringed scale. 
B. Stamens eighteen or twenty. 
F. Germens two, with two styles on each : Nut ovate, 
striated. 
C. bet'ulus. (Bracteas of the fruit oblong, serrated, flat, with two 
lateral lobes. E. Bot. E.) 
(E. Bot. 2032. E.)— Matth. 145—Ger. 1296—Park. 1406—<7. B. i. b. 146— 
Hunt. Evel. p. 143 ; i. p. 138. ed. ii.— Clus. i- 55. 2— Hod. 841— Lob. Ohs. 
607. 2, and Ic. ii. 190. 1— Ger. Em. 1479— Trag. 1109— Lonic. i. 33. 2. 
Barren flowers in a cylindrical drooping catkin, with fringed, single-flower¬ 
ed scales. Fertile flower in a lax catkin, its scales large, foliaceous, 
three-lobed, one flowered; or, according to Smith, “ in a bracteated 
cluster , aggregate, having no proper amentum as the true nature of the 
covering of the seed, as well as of the common stalk, proves.’* Fila¬ 
ment dividing at the top, each division supporting a distinct anther. Bark 
smooth, white. Leaves oval, pointed, sharply serrated, (when first ex¬ 
panding plaited in delicate folds. E.) A tree of rather humble growth. 
Seed or nut angular, about the size of a barley-corn. 
Horn-beam, (or Hard-beam, from the hard, horny nature of its wood. 
The Witch or Wych-Hasel of Essex. Welsh: Oestrwydden gyffredin. E.) In 
