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arboretum and fruticetum.

PART III.

jap6nica pendula. The largestbranch is about 17 ft. in lengthto where it touches theground, and it extends about4 ft. or 5 ft. more along itssurface. This variety seemsremarkably distinct, and welldeserving of culture. Thetree produces acorns, some ofwhich have been kindly sentto us by Lady Bolton, whichwe have distributed.

I Q. C. 3 variegata Lodd. Cat.,ed. 1836, only differs fromthe species in having the leavesvariegated.

b. Leaves dentate. Cups of the Acorns bristly.

1Q.C.4 austriaca ; Q. austriaca Willd., No. 76., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 183.,Rees's Cycl., No. 84.; Q. Cerris Host Syn., 520. a and R No. 28.;Q. crinita y Cerris Lin., Lam. Diet., i. p. 718.; Q. calyce hispido,&c., Bauh. Pin., 420.; Cerrus Clus. Hist., i. p. 20.; Cerri minoris ra-mulus cum flore Ger. Emac., 1346, with Clusius’s figure; CerrisPlinii minore glande Lob. Ic.,ii. p. 156., Ger. Emac., 1345.; 2E' gilopsmin6re glande Dod. Pempt., 831.; Haliphloe'os, Cirrus fee'minaDalech. Hist., i. p. 7.; our fig. 1708.; and the plate of this tree in our

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last Volume.— Leaves on longish stalks, ovate-oblong, slightly, butcopiously, sinuated; downy and hoary beneath ; lobes short, ovate,