ARBORETUM NOTES. 107 
CUPULIFEREA; 
QUERCUS COCCINEA. 
Loudon, p. 1879. 
Alphonso De Candolle, Prod. v. 16., pt. 2., p. 61. 
Several good trees, I believe of this species, are ee 
in various parts of the grounds at Barton, planted 
by my father; but I find it very difficult (without 
the acorns, which have never ripened here) to 
distinguish Quercus coccinea from rubra. The 
differences in the outline of the leaves, as given 
by authors, appear vague, and difficult to 
determine, and those in the autumnal colouring, 
on which Michaux lays much stress, seem, under 
cultivation in this climate to become altogether 
uncertain. 
One of the handsomest trees of this kind at 
Barton, and most marked in its characters, stands 
in the north-west part of the pleasure ground, not 
far from the library windows. It is not a large 
tree, but thriving and healthy. The leaves are 
large and deeply sinuated or lobed, corresponding 
exactly with Michaux’s figure of Quercus coccinea. 
When they first expand in the spring, they are 
downy, and delicately tinted with a soft pale red ; 
throughout the summer they are of a very bright 
and glossy green. Before the end of September, 
usually, a few bright red leaves appear here and 
there in the midst of the green ones; for the 
change of colour begins suddenly, with a complete 
