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SPECIES I— Q UERCUS ROBUR. Linn. 



Plates MCCLXXXVIII. MCCLXXXIX. 



Leaves deciduous, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-elliptical, sinuatcd, 

 with blunt lobes extending not more than half-way down to the mid- 

 rib. Fruit solitary or aggregated on axillary stalks. Cupule ^ to ^ 

 the length of the ripe fruit, with closely imbricated deltoid or trian- 

 gular-ovate adpressed scales destitute of subulate points. Leaves 

 glabrous when old, somewhat shining, 2:)ubescent beneath when 

 young. 



Sub-Species I.— Quercus pedunculata. WlUd. 



Plate MCCLXXXVIII. 



Bdcli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCXLVIII. Fig. 1313. 

 liiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2532. 



A. robur, Sm. Eugl. Bot. ed. i. ISTo. 13i2. Leujld. Fl. Shrop. p. 473. CV^yx Man Fl. cle 

 Belg. ed. ii. jd. 2G7. 



Leaves very shortly stalked, irregularly sinuate-pinnatifid ; lobes 

 commonly divided half-way down to the midrib, and extending to the 

 apex, the sinus between them forming an acute angle, though generally 

 rounded off at the bottom. Fruit peduncle longer than the acorn, and 

 much longer than the petiole. 



In woods, copses, hedgerows, &c. Common, and generally distri- 

 buted, though doubtless planted in many of its stations. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Tree. Spring. 



A tree attaining a great size, with widely spreading branches and 

 grey fissured bark. Leaves 3 to 6 mches long, with very short 

 petioles; lamina commonly unequal and more or less notched at the 

 base, but sometimes decurrent upon the petiole, firm, somewhat 

 leathery, shining and glabrous above when full-grown, paler beneath, 

 where it is often downy when young, with 4 to 6 large obtuse lobes 

 on each side, pointing^o wards the apex of the leaf. Flowers appearing 

 with the young leaves, on shoots produced from buds formed on 

 the wood of the previous year, and surrounded by brown scarious 

 bracts; male catkins long, pendulous, 2 or 3 together, 1 to 3 inches 

 long, with numerous flowers in fascicles, which are distant, especially 

 towards the base of the catkin. Fruit peduncle 1 to 4 inches long, 

 with a fruit at the apex, and generally 1 or 2 others between that 

 and the base; these are sometimes remote, sometimes approximate. 

 Cupule hemispherical, sessile upon the peduncle, rather smooth. 

 Acorn i to 1^ inch long, yellowish-green until it is fully ripe, when 

 it becomes brownish-olive. 



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