CHAP. CV.

coryla'ceas. «ue'rcus.

1847

* Foliage deciduous.

a. Leaves pinnatifid or sinuated. Cups of Ihe Acorns mossy.It Q. C. 1 vulgaris, Q. C. frondosa Mill.

Diet., ed. 5. (see Jig. 1702., and theplates of this tree in our last Volume),has the leaves pinnatifidly sinuated, and

the cups covered with soft moss. Ofthis variety there is an endless number

of subvarieties. Fig. 1702. may be con-sidered as the normal form : Jig. 1704. Sgg/jhas the leaves more deeply sinuated: "“’aSMJig. 1703. is from a specimen of great JyjySgfc,

beauty, sent us by Thomas Brooks,

Esq., of Flitwick House : and fig. 1705., lSKy® 3! x) s '~

copied from the figure given in Olivier’s

Travels, is. the Q. crinita var. e, Lam. K ' 17 **

Diet., i. p. 718., Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 82.; Q. Tournefort»Willd., No. 74., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 183.; Q. orientalis latifolia, &c.,Town. Cor., 40., Voy.,u. p. 172.; Q. Cerris Olio. Voy., i. p. 221.,Eng. ed., ii. p. 5. and t. 12.; and Q. IIphloe'os Bose Mem. sur les Chines. 1

oak was originally gathered by Tournetortin valleys and plains near Tocat, in Armenia.

Olivier says it is met with throughout greatpart of Asia Minor and Syria. The timberis brought to the arsenal of Constantinople

from the southern shores of the Black Sea, (Nji ^

and is commonly employed in ship-build- 'T-fiSap he?a /VIW -

ing, and also for the framework of houses. , =£^|y||yp .AMfc pfe'

The tree grows to a considerable height, and

furnishes excellent wood. In British plant- Cup-v

ations, it is one of the most ordinary forms ^ S|pr 1705

in which the species rises from seed. From *

the acorns of any one of these subvarieties, all the others, and many

more, will seldom fail to be produced in the same seed-bed, and,

indeed, sometimes on the ^

same tree, or even on the tT'V?A wu

same twig. .Fig.1706. shows v. CvOipy

portraits of three leaves, ,V \]|t

taken from a specimen of pW/L

Q. Cerris vulgaris, gathered CnA/T/

in the arboretum at Milford, vX 7 /

in 1835, and there errone- nIp

ously named Q. lusitanica. /ll JjS,

We have observed a similar ®

diversity of appearance in the leaves of an old tree of Q. Cerris inthe grounds at Buckingham Palace.

¥ Q. C. 2 pendula Neill in Lauder’s Gilpin, vol. i. p. 73. The pendulous,or weeping, Turkey Oak.— There is a specimen of this varietyin the experimental garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society,which was procured from the Botanic Garden, Amsterdam; but thehandsomest tree of the kind in Britain, or perhaps in Europe, is pro-bably that at Hack wood Park, from a specimen of which Jig. 1707.was taken. This tree, which was planted in 1800, was, in 1836, nearly40 ft. high, with a trunk clear of branches to the height of 8 ft. 9 in.,which, at the surface of the ground, was 2 ft. 9Jin. in circumference.The branches not only droop to the ground, but, after touching it,they creep along the surface to some distance, like those of Sophora