116 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CUPULIPERE. 
lie but we have two good trees in the arboretum, 
var under the former name, planted by my father 
Luccombeana 
nd Fulham in 1831.. They measure each a little aboveuaue 
‘ioe feet round the trunk, but are not quite so large 
or so tall as Turkey Oaks of the same age, nor 
of so symmetrical a shape. The leaves are very 
similar in outline, cutting, and texture, to those of 
Cerris,—at least, to the less divided forms of leaf 
of that species; but they are almost completely 
evergreen, at least in mild winters like the 
present; at this time, January, 1869, they are 
as green as the Quercus ilex. The acorns, which 
have been produced in abundance this winter, 
have much more resemblance both in shape and 
colour to those of Ilex than of Cerris; but the 
cups are like those of the latter, except that the 
projecting tips of the scales are rather shorter, 
stiffer, and less curled. The bark of the trunk is 
much less rugged than that of Cerris of the same 
age. Mr. Webb (as quoted in the Penny Cyclo- 
pedia, Art. Quercus), was of opinion that the 
Luccombe Oak was identical with his Quercus 
Hispanica, and with the Quercus seudo-suber of Des- 
fontaines, a native of Spain. But if this be so, 
the notion of its hybrid origin must be erroneous. 
Alphonse De Candolle considers it (including 
the Fulham Oak), as a variety of Quercus cerris; 
and appears to know it only as a garden plant ; 
but he acknowledges that it comes very near to 
Ouercus Pseudo-suber.—D. C. Prod. v. 16, p. 42,43. 
