荑

The old grass grew green.as well as the young grass that pushed up in needle points;the buds swelled on the guelder-rose and the currant bush,and the birch trees were sticky with sap;honey bees began buzzing among the golden catkin s葇荑花序 of the willow.

隔年的草又开始发绿，新草长出了针尖般的叶片；绣球花和红醋栗的芽苞显得胀鼓鼓的，桦树灌满了树汁，变得黏糊糊的，蜜蜂开始在柳树枝上金色的柳絮中嗡嗡叫。

Male catkin 5-10 cm; rachis glabrous; bracts laciniate.

雄性柔荑花序5-10厘米；轴无毛苞片条裂。

Leaves of sprouts with petioles terete, 2-5 cm, adaxially canaliculate, tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 cm. Male catkin 3-4 cm; bracts suborbicular, 3-5 mm, usually caducous, base cuneate, margin laciniate, with brown lobes.

圆柱状的菜芽具叶柄的叶，2-5厘米，正面具沟，被绒毛；叶片披针形或卵状披针形，10-15 厘米雄性柔荑花序3-4厘米；近圆形的苞片，3-5毫米，通常早落，基部楔形，条裂的边缘，具棕色裂片。

A group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder.

主要是木本植物的一个集合，被视为最原始的木本植物之一；没有花被，或花被发育的较差；其花通常是雌雄同体，为荑花序，通常通过风来受精。

Flowers unisexual, dioecious or the same strain, integrated head-shaped, weed inflorescence or syconium, was born in the shape of the receptacle, the male flowers with perianth 2-6, and often four, separation, or a little co-sheng, stamens 4, and with the same number of tepals and on the health, female flower sepal 4, ovary win, and dilute the next bit, usually a room, each room has an overhanging ovules.

花单性，雌雄异株或同株，集成头状、荑花序或隐头花序，生于各形的花托内，雄花有花被2—6，常为4，分离或稍合生，雄蕊4，并与花被片同数且对生，雌花萼片4，子房上位，稀下位，通常1室，每室有1颗悬垂胚珠。

And for companions she had all the fairies of the country-side--for she could believe in them here--the fairies of the white clover and satin catkins, the little green folk of the grass, the elves of the young fir-trees, sprites of wind and wild fern and thistledown.

她在荒野有许多小精灵和小仙女朋友——她相信他们的存在——白色苜宿和缎子一样光滑的柔荑花的仙女；草地上的绿色小人；年轻冷杉里的精灵；在风、野生蕨类和蓟花的冠毛里戏耍的妖精。

Leaf blade leathery, ovate to elliptic; branchlets not zigzagged; female flowers with 3 staminodes.

约的斯蒂普1/3-1/2倍于子房；苞片黄绿色；约的果柔荑花序3厘米；花花叶同放；叶1-2厘米 69

Any of various deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Alnus, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having alternate, simple, toothed leaves and tiny fruits in woody, conelike catkins.

桤木一种桤木属的落叶灌木或乔木，原主要生长于北温带地区，有互生的锯齿形单叶，在其木本的锥体柔荑花序中有微小的果实

Rod red brown or cinnamon, have edge, shape of foliaceous water chestnut is elliptic, tip is short gradually pointed, base ministry wedge, the predestined relationship is provided fine pure toothed, grow 3-12cm, wide 2-8.5cm, two sides does not have wool glossily, the leaf expresses green, the leaf carries dark green green on the back, vein and Xie Bing all take green, individual plant of different of male and female, female male flower all is catkin, capsule does not have wool, 2-3 valve is cracked, the seed is small, hairiness, first Xie Kaifang, florescence April, fruit is ripe April.

纵裂。小枝红褐或黄褐色，具棱，叶菱状椭圆形，先端短渐尖，基部楔形，缘具细纯锯齿，长3-12cm，宽2-8.5cm，两面光滑无毛，叶表绿色，叶背苍绿色，叶脉和叶柄均带绿色，雌雄异株，雌雄花均为柔荑花序，蒴果无毛，2-3瓣裂，种子小，有毛，先叶开放，花期4月，果熟4月。

Catkins erect or pendulous; each flower usually with a cupular disc or 1 or 2(or 3) nectariferous glands.

柔荑花序直立或者下垂。每花通常具杯状花盘或1或2(或3)分泌蜜汁的腺体。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。