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CORYLa'cETE. QUE'RCUS.

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* Foliage deciduous.

a. Leaves pinnatijid or sinuated. Cups of the Acorns mossy.

S Q. C. 1 vulgaris, Q. C. frondosa Mill. g*®

Diet. , ed. 5. (see Jig. 1702., and theplates of this tree in our last Volume),

has the leaves pinnatifidly sinuated, and v *}>'•/' ‘

the cups covered with soft moss. Of

this variety there is an endless number „

of subvarieties, .F%.1702. may be con-

sidered as the normal form : Jig. 1704.

has the leaves more deeply sinuated : ^

fig. 1703. is from a specimen of great vjsggg||ji,

beauty, sent us by Thomas Brooks ,

Esq., of Elitwick House : and fig. 1705.,

copied from the figure given in Olivier’s

Travels, is the Q. crinita var. t, Lam. ^ 1704

Did., i. p. 718., Smith in Rees's CycL, No. 82.; Q. Tourneforth

Willd., No. 74., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 183.; Q. orientalis latifolia, Sec.,

Tourn. Cor., 40., Voy., ii. p. 172.; Q. Cdrris Oliv. Voy., i. p. 221.,

Eng. ed., ii. p. 5. and t. 12.; and Q. Jfali-

phloe'os Bose Mem. sur les Chenes. This

oak was originally gathered by Tournefort

in 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 ,

and is commonly employed in ship-build-ing, and also for the framework of houses.The tree grows to a considerable height, and

furnishes excellent wood. In British plant- &S ^jgf%

ations, it is one of the most ordinary forms ~ SSjr

in which the species rises from seed. From *

the acorns of any one of these subvarieties, all the others, and manymore, will seldom fail to be produced in the same seed-bed, and,

Inrl onrl onrviotimno An 1 -Ka - . _ _

same tree, or even on thesame twig. i%.1706. showsportraits of three leaves,taken from a specimen ofQ. Cerris vulgaris, gatheredin the arboretum at Milford,in 1835, and there errone-ously named Q. lusitanica.

ously named Q. lusitanica. 'SrWe have observed a similar ®

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

1. 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 Hackwood 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. 9fin. 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 Sophdra