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plants have been raised. These plants, though they have the leavesmore frequently broad and dentate, than narrow and sinuate, orpinnatifid, yet vary so exceedingly, that they could hardly be soldas the genuine Fulham oak. Hence, that variety can only be pro-pagated by grafting; and the stock ordinarily used is the commonoak, on which the Fulham oak takes as freely as the apple does onthe crab. Messrs. Osborne have lately selected a seedling withleaves broader and less dentate than usual; and this they are nowpropagating under the name of Q. C. fulhamensis latifolia. Weprefer the designation of Q. C. fulhamensis to Watson’s name ofQ. C. dentata; because the latter will apply equally to severalvarieties, and is as characteristic of the Lucombe oak as of the Ful-ham oak.

“t Q. C. 9 Lucombe ana; Q. Lucombedna Swt.; Q. exoniensis Lodd. Cat.,ed. 1836. The Lucombe Oak, the evergreen Turkey Oak, the Devon-shire Oak, the Exeter Oak. (fig. 1714-, and figs. 1712, 1713.) —