103 
68." He repeats this determination in Rees’ Cy clopedia 
Sates Q. faginea. One of the specimens is figured by Loudon in 
Arb. & rok, Brit. 111., p. 1926; ng. 1816, to represent Q. faginea 
Liam. They seem to correspond admirably with Cavanilles’ plate 
of Q. valentina, Ic. ii. t. 129 (1793), identified by Willkomm in 
Prodr, Fl. Hisp. i, p. 240, with Q. faginea Lam. (1783). This 
plate ete Le very unlike the acorns of faginea are to those of 
the Vallon 
The sabe edition of the Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) merely 
repeats what had been said in the seventh, only adopting the 
Linnean binominal Quercus Aegilops and altering dentato-repandis 
io dentato-serratis in accordance with the second edition of the 
Species Plantarum 
All modern Sutidees who carry weight, ripe as Smith in Rees’ 
Cyclop. xxix, Hooker in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiil. p. 384 (‘* Onthree 
Oaks of Palestine **), and Boissier, FI. Or. iv. a Pi, adopt the 
identification of Q. Aegzlops L. with the Vallonea without discus- 
sion or reference to the herbarium specimens. A. de Candolle, 
Prodr. xvi. i. p. 45, considers the Linnean name to include Q. 
macroleyis Kotschy and Q. graeca Kotschy, as well as Q. Vallonea 
Kotschy of the Taurus; all these producing the Vallonea acorns 
of commerce, but he is wrong in excluding from this interpreta- 
tion the old synonyms relied on by. Linnaeus. Solander, too, in his 
MSS. in Mus. Brit., vol. xix., in a description of the 
nen rema oe: is Q. Aegilops Sp. Rae 1414 exclusis Pais 
Co 
per 
N 
a acres Plinii.”’ Eiinena! probably sainertad the name 
is a transliteration of the aiyitwy of Theophrastus, the 
identity of which need not be discussed here, because it is from 
Pliny, not Theophrastus, that our early botanists, ignorant of 
Greek, took their notions, often misunderstanding even Pliny, as 
they seem to think that he speaks of Aegilops as a kind of Cerrus. 
He does rar aes 3 the sort. What he . is ie Nat. xvi. pe 
“ Glandem 
ceu carhinene.!! The comparison of the chosen shows that his 
Cerrus was Q. Cerris L., and could not be, or include, the Vallonea. 
Pliny evidently knew these five acorn-bearing trees as natives 0 
Italy, but Aegilops is only introduced later in the same chapter 
in the words of Theophrastus, ‘‘excelsissima autem aegilops, 
incultis amica,’’ without being connected in any way with the 
parasitic growth, he returns to hapa only bs translate that 
author’s account of the lichens that aiyikow 
The earliest account of the Vallonea (Aegilops) and Turkey 
(Cerris) oaks as distinct seems to be in Lobel, Stirp. Obs., p. 584 
(1576), where the two woodcuts very fairly represent the amie 
ence in the acorns, but the leaves of both are shown as identical. 
