Crossword-Solution: CARPINUS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

One bed is filled with large leaves of a species of fig (_Ficus populina_), and of a hornbeam (_Carpinus grandis_), the strength of the wind having probably been great when they were blown into the lake; whereas another contiguous layer contains almost exclusively smaller leaves, indicating, apparently, a diminished strength in the wind.

The liquidambar, as well as several poplars and willows, cannot be distinguished from those of Oeningen; the same is true of an Elm, a Carpinus, and others.

BLUE BEECH OR HORNBEAM (_Carpinus caroliniana_) Distinguishing characters: The *fluted* or muscular effect of its *trunk* will distinguish the tree at a glance, Fig.

Blue beech (_Carpinus caroliniana_) Native to the woodlands of the Eastern States; looks well in spring and fall.

The origin of the English name is quaintly explained by Gerard in his "Herbal" as follows: "The wood," he says, "in time, waxeth so hard, that the toughness and hardness of it may be rather compared to horn than unto wood, and therefore it was called horne-beam or hardbeam." [Illustration: CARPINUS ORIENTALIS.] _Carpinus Betulus_,[1] the common hornbeam, as is the case with so many of our native or widely cultivated trees, exhibits considerable variation in habit, and also in foliage characters.