ARBORE!UM NOTES. 115 
CUPULIFPE RE Zz. 
I should think, must belong to a time before the Quercus 
snow-storm. I remember to have seen, many are 
years ago, one or two very fine Cork trees in 
Goodwood Park, near the house. I suppose they 
were planted by Peter Collinson. 
Loudon is quite correct in saying that the 
leaves of the Cork tree vary in the same manner 
as those of the Ilex. All the leaves borne by the 
young Cork tree here have been sharply toothed, 
wavy, and short in proportion to their breadth; 
whereas those which I gathered from old trees on 
the Estrelles mountains in the South of France, 
are entire-edged and comparatively long and 
narrow. 
In herbarium specimens there seems to be no 
character by which we can distinguish the Cork 
tree from the Ilex; but the habit of the tree, 
when well grown, is markedly different. Not 
only is there a striking character in the bark, but 
the wood also is different, that of the Cork 
tree being much more lax and porous, and 
characterized especially by the very broad and 
conspicuous medullary rays. 
QUERCUS CERRIS. Var. Luccombeana. 
Loudon, v. 3. 1851. 
I am by no means clear as to the difference Quercus 
cerris 
between the Luccombe and the Fulham Oaks, 
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