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/  QUINA. Quinine. see No. 169. 
_ Ch 21, Ord. 6.” Monoecia Polyanilria. Nat. ord. Aime niuces. 
+ Species 1 QUERCUS INFECTORIA OLIVIER? .__, “a 
—  Sytonym—Quercus cerris, ¢ Dyer’s oak, 
: Ma 
Orricrvat. Galle. Galls of the Colleges—Gall-nuts. 
-.  ‘Phis species grows throughout all Asia; is seldom more than 
© 9 sbefeet high; the leaves ure smooth, obtusely toothed, 
and of a bright green colour on beth sides; it has an 
elongated acorn, two or three times longer than the cup, 
avhich is sessile, downy, and scaly ; the gall comes out at 
» the shoots of the young boughsythose that come out first, 
according to Virey, are best; they are called in commerce 
lue, black, or green—those afterwards gathered, are in- 
. 
ferior, being pierced, ahd are called white gulls. 
_ ? Linn... Diplolepsis galla tinetoria, of Geo a, small 
hyimenopterous og which Beh a A shoot 
_ with its sting, and deposites its egg in the puncture. This 
is soon hatched, and from the t feeding on the juice 
fthe plant, a morbid perversion is induced, which causes 
the excrescence, walled gall-nut. The first picked galls, 
termed: Yerli hy the natives, are called: green, or 
blue galls—these are gathered before 
ese are gatherec : have be- 
some flies, and escaped; those subsequently ‘gathered, 
« * when the flies ha 
és have made ‘their way out, and leave holes, 
are inferior and less astringent, and called white gulls. 
~ the best galls are those of Aleppo, Smyrna, Maguesia, 
Karuhisser, Diarbekir, and the interior of Nato 
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"The insect which produces galls, is the Cynipequereus folli, 
