ARBORETUM NOTES. 111 
CUPULIPE RAS: 
of which everywhere touches the ground. The 
circuit of this dome, measured by pacing round 
the outside edge where the ends of the branches 
rest on the ground, is upwards of a hundred 
yards. (November, 1868.) 
ithe trunk ‘of one of these Jlexes, has a 
girth of nine feet, eight inches; of another, seven 
feet, three inches. Thisis according to Mr. Mills’ 
note of their dimensions. 
The tradition is that they were planted in 
Oueen Elizabeth’s time, and I think it probable 
that they are some of the oldest of their kind in 
England. They were not materially hurt by the 
winter of 1860. 
There is an J/ex in the Bishop’s Palace Gardens 
at Fulham, which, according to the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle (January 15th, 1870) measures eleven 
feet in the girth of the trunk. It was planted by 
Bishop Compton, in 1686. 
In travelling southward through France,—the 
eastern part of it,—by the road from Paris to 
Marseilles, one first observes the Ilex growing 
wild, somewhere about Montelimart, or between 
40° 30' and 40° 50’ north; not far from-the same 
parallel where the cultivation of the Olive begins. 
In the arid, hilly, limestone country about Avignon, 
Nismes, Aix, etc., it is rather common, but always 
in the form ofa bush, and much less abundant than 
the little holly-like Kermes Oak, Quercus cocifera. 
Quercus 
ilex 
