. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. 1/8 Elementary Botany AMENTACE^. Typical plant, Common Hazel {Corylus Avellana, fig. 162). Note, the plant is a shrub or small tree (trees and shrubs are met with in the order); leaves alternate; flowers in catkins, monoecious (in many plants of the order, as the Willow, the flowers are dioecious); staminate catkins pendulous; numerous wedge-shaped bracts; no perianth; eight stamens attac
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. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. 1/8 Elementary Botany AMENTACE^. Typical plant, Common Hazel {Corylus Avellana, fig. 162). Note, the plant is a shrub or small tree (trees and shrubs are met with in the order); leaves alternate; flowers in catkins, monoecious (in many plants of the order, as the Willow, the flowers are dioecious); staminate catkins pendulous; numerous wedge-shaped bracts; no perianth; eight stamens attached to each bract, fig. 312 (in the order the number of stamens present varies from two upwards, and a slight perianth is sometimes present); pistillate inflorescence a bud-like catkin. Fig. 312.âThe Hazel (Cwyfej^w^/aMa). I. Male flower. II. Female flower. â III. Fruit with laciniated spurious cupule. with two flowers within surrounded by numerous bracts, each flower consisting of a two-celled ovary with two red stigmas (in the order the pistillate catkins are either pendulous like the staminate, with one, two, or three flowers on each scale-like bract, or in a bud-like head with two or three flowers in the centre); fruit a one-seeded nut (in some plants of the order a capsule). This is an important and extensive family, distributed all over the globe, especially in temperate regions, and yields a large number of timber trees as well as esculent plants. It is divided into several sub-orders, four of which are represented in this country, viz. -^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Edmonds, Henry. London and New York : Longmans, Green, and Co.