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¥ 42. Q. Fontane's u Gass. Desfontaine’s Oak .

Identification . A dried specimen, named by Gusson himself, in Dr. Lindley’s herbarium.

Synonyms. Q. pseUdo-coccifera of Catros of Bordeaux, and of the Hort. Soc. Garden, in May 2837.Engraving. Our^g. 1813.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval; obtusely sinuated, and bluntly dentate;downy beneath. Fruit on peduncles. This oak was received from M.Catros of Bordeaux, under the name of Q. pseudo-coccifera, but it does not at all agree with the de-scription given of that species in the Nouveau DuHamel, where it is said to be evergreen, with leavesresembling those of Q. coccifera; while the plant inthe Horticultural Society’s Garden is deciduous.

Dr. Lindley informs us that it is the Q. Fontanesiiof Gussone; a native of Calabria , and also found inPalestine; it being identical with a specimen in thedoctor’s herbarium, named by Gussone himself.

Gussone considers it as identical with the Q. Pseudo-Nuber of Desfontaines; which is somewhat singular, asDesfontaines describes his plant as an evergreen.

The tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden is12 ft. high, and the bark and buds are like those of Q. Cerris.

i 43. Q . ? austea'lis Link. The Southern Oak.

Description. “A noble species of oak,” Captain S. E. Cook observes,“ is associated with the Q. Nuber in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar ; whereI met with it in ascending through a forest to the left of the commonroute to Cadiz, above Los Barrios . This species,” he continues, “ which isone of the finest of European trees, and which has not found its way r intoour nurseries, was pronounced by Dr. Lindley to be the Q. australis of Link.The leaf is very large, andovate [Captain Cook , whohas seen this account of hisoak since it was in type,says it should be “ obo-vate ”], with small inden-tures. The acorns mightbe easily procured, in Oc-tober or the beginning ofNovember, from Gibral-tar .” ( Sketches , &c., vol.ii. p. 249.) The acornswere so procured for theLondon Horticultural So-ciety, through the influenceof government, and plantswere raised from them, in1835, in the garden of theSociety. Fig. 1814. is a re-presentation of part of oneof these plants of 2 years’growth, taken in March,

1837. The species appearsto be a decided evergreen ;and we think it is alliedto Q. sessiliflora. TheQ- australis of Link, asquoted by Sprengel, Syst. ^

' e g. Osier., No. 59., which is the Q. hybrida of Brotero, is thus described :~~ eaves ovate-elliptic, somewhat obtuse, sinuated, toothed, coriaceous;ining above, pubescent beneath. Fruit almost sessile.

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