ARBORETUM NOTES. I 
CUPU LIE Riku 
slowly, being still a small tree, not above fifteen 
feet high with a trunk only three feet round, and 
a dense umbrella-like head; the principal branches 
spreading very horizontally. I have never ob- 
served flowers or fruit on it. The leaf-buds are 
much smaller than those of the common Beech, 
but agree in form and structure. The leaves are 
exactly as figured and described by Loudon; but 
this year, 1868, the tree has borne some twigs 
covered with leaves of the ordinary type of the 
common Beech. These twigs proceeded from 
the same branches with others bearing leaves of 
the variety ; and in one instance I observed leaves 
of the common Beech type, and others of the fern 
like variety growing on the same twig. (October, 
1869). 
Miss year tor the first time (as far as ] am 
aware) the fern-leaved Beech has flowered and 
fruited ; flowered freely and borne several fruits 
which have apparently ripened, though I have 
some doubt whether they are perfect. These are 
considerably smaller than those of the common 
Beech, and the cupule is shorter in proportion to 
the nuts. 
Fagus 
sylvatica 
