ORD: Il. ‘Aniéntacéé. 98 
QUERCUS" ROBUR. = ——s “COMMON OAK. 
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SYNONYMA. | Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Quercus cum 
longo pediculo. Bauh, Pin. p. 420. Quercus. vulgaris. Gerard 
Emac. p. 1340. Quercus latifolia. , Park, Theat. p. 1386. Quercus 
a vulgaris longis pediculis. J. Bauh. Hist. vol.i. p.70. Raii Hist. 
“?. 1385. S; yynop. p. 440. Quercus Robur. Evel. Sylo. by Hunter, 
ed. 2. p.67.. Du Roy, Baumz. t. ii. p. 236. Huds. Ang. p. 421. 
Withering, Bot. Arr. p. 1083. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n, 1626. 
« Arborea, pedunculis elongatis ( pedunculata) Aiton, Hort. Kew. 
_, «Female Oak Tree. 
£ Arborea, fructibus subsessilibus (sessilis) a Hort. Kew. 
Common Oak Tree. 
y Frutescens, ramis virgatis, fructibussessilibus (humilis ) Azton. ‘ e. 
Dwarf Common Oak Tree. : 
Class Monoecia. Ord. Polyandtia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1070. 
ae Gen. Ch. Mase. Cal. 5-fidus fere.. Cor..0. Stam..5-10. 
Fem. Cal. 1-phyllus, integerrimus, scaber. Cor. 0. 
Styli 2-5. Sem, 1, ovatum. 
Sp. Ch. Q.. foliis oblongis glabris sinuatis: lobis rotundatis, glan- 
; _ dibus oblongis.,.;.4iton. Hort. Kew. 
THIS! tree niet ti Be rises to a very considerable were sends off. 
ers ‘An Oak. tree, is . the parish of Little Shelsley, Worcestershire, measured in 
circumference, at about two yards from the ground, 22 feet 4 inches, and close 
to the ground nearly 48 feet, (Hollefear). —Of one growing i in 1764, in Broom- 
field Wood, ' near Ludlow, Shropshire, the trunk measured 68 feet in girth, and 
23 in length: this tree, allowing 90 square feet for the larger branches, contained 
1455 feet of thick timber. (Lightfoot).—The girth of the Green Dale Oak, near 
Welbeck, at eleven feet from the ground,, was'S3 feet; and soue ‘growing at 
Cowthorpe, near Wetherby, Yorkshire, measured 78, feet in circumference 2 
to the ae (Hent. Kyel.) See Withering; 4... 
i _ This reminds-us of the Oak alluded toby Vine 
ere £5 & qQuantin vertice ad auras” 
/Etherias, tahttm radice in Tartara tenastl =" Lara’ 2 ae ads. 
