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and finally continues northwards, facing on one si 
latter, then covers much of the hills around the plain of Esdraelon, 
de the 
seen any specimens from there. Farther north, however, at 
Banias, it was collected by Post, and, according to Kotschy, it 
also occurs in the Antilebanon. Beyond this region it extends 
through the Jebel Nur into the Cilician Taurus, here, as in the 
Lebanon, ascending to over 4500 ft. It has also been found in 
Cyprus from the coast hills to the mountains of the interior. The 
them as ‘‘ Chénes verds.”’ It was not until 1812 that this oak 
received critical attention, when Labillardiére, who had collected 
it himself in the Lebanon, described and figured it, identifying 
it, however, with Desfontaine’s Q. pseudococcifera from Algeria. 
Then in 1838 Webb, pointing out its distinctness from the Algerian 
plant, named it Q. calliprinos. Unfortunately he included in this 
species an oak of which he had collected some imperfect material 
in the mountains near Tetuan in Morocco. Th 
i . Kotschy, duri 
his travels in the Orient otschy, during 
pecimens he dispersed. Some of them 
. ough th at ty ates 
eae writers or used for th eee eren rcd By: Suuee 
e designation of subordinate forms. 
, in his Flora Palaestina usuall uoted Lin soiane e VATE aeRO 
. ; a ! ; stina 
(Amoen. iv. 1756). enumerates five pois : Dido abies she o gaps 
ra of Rauwolf’s collection, the others “a Pocockic 
ea D. Millero extricatas.” 
his “ Description of the Bast" © pry evidently the oaks listed by Pococke in 
taken from Tournefort’s Corolla 
have evident] : ; Fs . he 
iivane Poe st Aero do with the Abraham’s Oak. I have not been able 
