MONOECIA-POLYANDRIA. Quercus. 149 



Engl. Bot. V. 19. t. 1342. Hook. Scot. 373. Woadv. t. 12G. Huds. 



42], a. Mart. Rust. t. 10 ; the stalked variety. 

 Q. pedunculata. mild. Sp. PL v. 4. 450. Baumz. 2/8. Ait. IL 



Kew. ed. 2. V. 5. 294. Ehrh.Arb.77. PI. Of. 168. 

 Q. foemina. With. 387. Fl. Dan. t. 1 180. 

 Q. n. 1G2G, a, major. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 296. 

 Q. latifolia. Raii Sijn. 440. 



Q. vulgaris. Ger. Em. 1339, 1310./,/. Lob. lev. 2. 154, 155.//. 

 Q. Hemeris. Dalech. Hist. 4. f. 

 Q. cum longo pediculo. Bauh. Pin. 420. Duham. Arb. v. 2. 202. 



t.47. 

 Quercus. Trag. Hist. 1 102./ Fuchs. Hist. 220./. Ic. 130./ 



Matth. Valgr.v. 1. 184./ Camer.Epit.] W . f. Tabern.Kreuterb. 



1374./ 

 Oak Tree. Hunt. Evel. Sylv. 69./ 



In woods and hedges every where. In mountainous situations of 

 more humble stature. 



Tree. April. 



A large, umbrageous, very handsome tree, with round, smooth, 

 leafy, more or less wavy, branches. Leaves deciduous, alternate, 

 on short stalks, smooth, bright green, unequally cut into paral- 

 lel, bluntish, entire, marginal lobes, with rather acute sinuses, 

 and furnished with a single mid-rib, sending off veins into the 

 lobes. Barren^, in numerous, pendulous, stalked, yellowish, 

 downy, deciduous catkins, 2 inches long, from lateral scaly buds. 

 Fertile on axillary simple stalks, few, scattered, sessile, lateral, 

 small, greenish tinged with brown ; their outer calyx subse- 

 quently much enlarged and hardened, constituting the well- 

 known permanent cup of the smooth, finally deciduous, nut, or 

 acorn, which last is crowned by the small, chaffy, converging: 

 inner calyx. 



Acorns, the noted food of hogs, arc eaten likewise by pheasants 3 

 probablv by turkeys in a half domesticated state. We have 

 known a considerable number taken out of the crop of one 

 pheasant, which, on being ))lantcd, grew. The value of the noo(/, 

 as the most useful for all the most imj)ortant purposes, is well 

 known. When finely veined, it is no less ornamental. This 

 species of Oak, afiording tiie best, strongest, and most lasting 

 timber, received from Linnieus the classical name of Robur, ap- 

 proj)riated to tlie hardest and best kind of Oak. How W'illde- 

 now came to misa|)ply this speciric ap|)ellation to the following, 

 or worst kind, and why he is countenanced in this wilful error 

 in the Hort. Kcu\, contrary to the knowledge of all botanists, 

 1 am not able to give any satisfactory reason. Ueichard seems 

 the original cause, in the misajiplication of the references to Lin- 

 naeus, in his Syst. Plant, v. 4. I 63. 



