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Show The ‘BRITISH The Hazle. Corylus vidgaris, PCGecOR: This is a fhrub of ten feet high. The bark is brown. The leaves are roundifh, rough on the furface, ferrated, and fharp-pointed, CE. ;HER BAL, The catkins are brown, andthe female flowers are red. It is common in hedges and woods, C. Bauhine calls it Coryizs vulgaris, Ua§ sl TIL. BEE (CH, F A U.S. a male flowers compofe a kind of globular catkin: they are formed ofa one- leaved cup, dividedinto five parts ; and have no petals, but numerous filaments. The female flower is en clofed in a bud ; and confifts of 4 cup, divided into four fegments, which afterwards harden 9 and form acovering orfhell to the fruit. This is compofed of large feeds laid clofe together. XK CES. 80 TR Eo ExS-iand The Beech. Fagus vulgaris. DC:17im B “he tree is large, the bark {moothandpale. The leaves are broad, fhort, and of a dufky S H RU BS. The flowers are greenifh; and the fruit, or maft, when ripe, is hard and brown. It is common in woods, C. Bauhine, and all others, call it Fagus: preen. their outer Te vegetables of this clafs carry their diftinGtion in the moft obvious manner in Gilaekiso place form ; yet modern fyftems do not preferve them feparate. Thelate writers in general in the fame claffes thofe trees and herbaceous plants, whofe flowers have the fame number -§ rPHE male flowers are difpofed in long catkins, and are of the fame ftructure with thofe of the 4 beech, larger. The female flowers are alfo of the fame form with thofé of beech: the fruit is Common Chefnut Tree. S BeeR “ded. <S FE TREES whofe male and female flowers are feparate. G Seb NOUS Ts THE WALLNUT. The tree is large, and fpreads out into many branches, with a fingle petal, divided alfo into four parts, and an oval rudiment, which afterwards becomesthe fruit, confifting ofa flefhy covering, with a fhelly fubftance within, enclofing an uneven kernel. The catkins are brownifh, with a tinge of The tree rifes to a great height, and fpreads green, and the fruit covered with a green rind. It is wild in Scotland ; and is planted every where for the fruit. irregularly into branches. The leaves are pinnated ; the pinne vaft, oblong, andofa fine green. Gren The fkin furrounding the kernel is 2 good aftringent. Neu i HAZLE. CeO OR BiG Us. "THE male flowers are in catkins, and confift of numerous filaments : they are feparated by fcales, divided at the top into three parts, which turn back. The female flowers ftandat a diftance from thefe, and are enclofed in abud. The cup is formed of two leaves, and is ragged at the edges : * a ik ve . + ce co: 7 £ 4 thefe are fo {mall as to be fcarce diftinguifhable. From the rudiment of the fruit rife two feathered and coloured ftyles. The fruit is a nut, contained in the cup, whichenlarges greatly. I Itis wild in fome of our woods, and cultivated every whereforits fruir. The leaves are long, ferrated, fharp-pointed, andofa beautiful dark green. Goilg Ee Gicl C. Bauhinecalls it Caftanea /ylveftris, SS LA OA K. HE male flowers are in catkins; and each is divided into fix parts. The female flowers ftand two or three together on other parts of the tree: each confifts of a cup, divided into four parts, Nux vulgaris. MF2../ The catkins are of a whitifh green, and the fruit very large. Caftanea vulgaris. LC72. A Nv X. 1. The Wallnut Tree, IV, C A Sal ANE A, in nature, diftinct. CHEATS AAAS ATSR SSeSRaERES U_ CHES NU T, of filaments : but in this work, intended to familiarife the fcience, we have kept them, as they are i Ni QUERCUS. HE male flowers make a loofe catkin: eachconfifts 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, whichafterwards becomesthe acorn, ; The fruit needs no defcription. We have one other fpecies, diftinguifhed by 1. The Oak. Quercus vulgaris. PCPoF The tree grows to a vaft height and bignefs, fpreading into innumerable and irregular branches. r Z le leaves are large, oblong, 6 obtufe, deeply inuated, and of a dark green. Goi UH haps the fhortnefs of the footftalk, which fupports the acorn, 2, Oak, with acorns on fhort footftalks, Quer4 cus latifolia mas brevi pediculo. cad ae VI, FoF R. @UB TE & HE male flowers are difpofed in racemous catkins 5 and confift only of filaments, with the {caly parts of the bud as cups. The female flowers are arranged many together in a common ‘up, of a conic form, and confit only of a rudiment ofa fruit, with a fhort ftyle: one is lodged un. der every fcale of the cone. 60 The v0, |