lo4 NOT I ri;s OF NEW OK RAKE GARDEN PLANTS. 



Quercus Brantii. Lindley in Bot. Reg. misc. 1840. p. 4 J. 

 Q. persica. Jaubert and Spach. 



When in the year 183'9 (?) James Brant, Esq., H. M. Consul 

 a i Krzeroum, visited Kurdistan, he was accompanied by Dr. Edward 

 Dickson, who prepared for the herbarium a considerable number 

 of the more remarkable plants met with during the journey. 



Acorn "i Quercus Brantii. 



The collection having been afterwards presented by Mr. Brant 

 to the Hon. Win. Fox Strangways, was given by the latter 

 gentleman to the writer of this notice, who published in the 

 Botanical Register for 1840 an account of the remarkable Oaks 

 which formed a part of Dr. Dickson's :;: herbarium. Among them 

 was a very remarkable species, named after Mr. Brant, the great 

 heart-shaped, bristle-toothed, leathery, woolly leaves of which, 

 measuring as much as six inches by four, especially attracted 

 attention, as of a plant likely to be ornamental in this country. 

 Many attempts were made to procure acorns of the species, but 

 in vain, until Mr. Layard took such measures as resulted in the 

 despatch of a box of them, wbich arrived safely in the year 1850. 

 Among these acorns there were some of remarkable size, one of 



* It is right to state that the author of the notice in the Botanical 

 Register was not aware till long after 1840 that the collection had been 

 formed by Dr. Dickson. This explains why that gentleman's name was 

 not mentioned. 



