This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
C. Avellana: shrub or small tree; leaves deciduous, roundish heart-shaped, pointed, obscurely lobed, doubly coarse toothed; male catkins long drooping cylindrical; females resembling ovate leaf-buds, with a few crimson threads. - Nut, or Hazel-nut. - Coppices and thickets. Fl. April.
 
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