OCTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Quercus. 



331 



1— ic. ii. 155. I- J. B. i. b. SS-Ger. 1155. 1-J. B. i. 



b. 70. 2-Lonk. i. 31. 2-Fuchs. 229-J. B. i. b. JO. 1- 

 Traj-. U02-Sj>ect. de la nat. 25. 1, c/ ii. /. 283-iVa/. 

 delin* 17, 1, a/ii./. 311. 



Leaves appear later than in the next species, and the flowers 

 come out later. Fruit later. Acorns 4- to 12 together, on some 

 trees, egg-shaped, in others oblong, taper-pointed. Wood red- 

 dish, brittle, Du Rot. Leaves deeper green, and not so deeply 

 indented. Ray. Frequently retains its leaves all winter. Mr. 

 Woodward. 



££. Robur jS Huds — Q* lat'ifolia mas y qu& Irevi pediculo est, 

 R. Svn. 440.—2fav-O<z£ about Newberry. R. Syn* Bagley-Wood, 



—Common but less so than 



and other places. Bobart in R. Syrt. 

 the next species. Mr. Woodward. 



T. April 



Q. Leaves oblong, on short leaf-stalks, blunt, 



cleft with indentations: fruit mostly solitary, on 

 long; fruit-stalks. 



Fl. dan. 1180. 



Leaves not so deeply indented, nor the indentures so irre- 

 gular, as in the preceding, but opposite. Trees raised from 

 acorns of this sort produced acorns and retained all the marks of 

 their parent tree. Mill. Leaves of a deeper green than in the 

 preceding and narrower towards the end. Acorns from 1 to 3 



wins;- femlna* 



joined together. Wood whitish, hard. Du Ror. Malefl. Calyx 

 to 3-cleft nearly corresponding to the number of stamens, 

 Stam. 7 to y, but mostly 8. Fern. fl. CaL tiled, composed of 

 about 20 spear-egg-shaped membranaceous coloured leaves. 

 Styles mostly 3, bent back. St. In the midland counties the 

 fruit-stalks are 5 or 6 times as long as the leaf-stalks. 

 By the Boat-house in Edgbaston Park. 



Quercus Robur cc Huds. — Woods and hedges. [Not so com- 

 mon as the Q. Roblir, but in the wilds of Kent and Sussex I 

 have seen many large trees of it. Its timber is accounted better 



than that of the Q. Robur. Mill.] 



T. April. 



Some of the figures referred to under the preceding species be- 

 long to this, particularly that of Hunter's Evelyn's Sylva, but in 

 general they are so ill drawn, and with so little attention to the 

 specific differences, that it is hardly possible to refer them with any 

 degree of certainty. The following remarks also belong to both 

 the species.* 







* The Oak loves hilly better than boggy ground, and thrives best, 

 While young, in large plantations. Its roots descend deep into the earth, 

 and therefore will not bear to be transplanted. Much lopping destroys 



Grasu will hardly grow beneath it.— The wood is hard, tough, to- 

 lerably 



it. 



