Quercus 
cerris 
106 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CUPULIFP ERE: 
Quercus rober. Some of the largest and finest trees 
of the Cerris that I have ever seen, are in Mr. 
Berners’s beautiful park at Woolverston on the . 
Orwell. This oak is pretty common in Italy, but 
much less so than the Quercus pubescence ( Willd.) 
or Quercus raber variety lanuginosa (Alphonse De 
Candolle) which may indeed be called the Oak of 
Italy. I have seen the Cerris in woods near 
Sienna, in abundance on hills about the Lake of 
Bolsena, and several large trees of it on rough hilly 
eround between the river Magra and the Gulf of 
La Spezzia.—Hooker (in Linnean Transactions, v. 23. 
386) says that Quercus Cerris is ‘a native of Spain, 
Italy, France, Austria, Greece, and Asia_Mianor 
but on the contrary, Lindley (in the Penny 
Cyclopedia, article Quercus) assents seemingly on 
the authority of Webb, that it is unknown in 
Spain.. 
According to Alphonse De Candolle (D.C. Prod. 
v. 66. section post, p. 42), who has very carefully 
attended to the geographical distribution of Oaks, 
this is extensively spread through ‘‘the East,” 
from Lebanon through the whole of Asia Minor to 
European Turkey, through the whole south east of 
Europe, and from Sicily along the whole length 
of the Appenines ; it is found in a few dissevered 
localities in. France, and in one place in Spain, 
namely, the Park of the Pardo near Madrid, 
where it is. perhaps not indigenous. 
