CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CEZ. QUE/RCUS. 1731 
A. Leaves deciduous. 
§ i, Robur. British Oaks. 
Sect. Char. Leaves lobed and serrated ; dying off of a yellowish or russet 
brown. Bark rough. Buds ovate. Fructification annual. Cups imbricate. 
Trees from 30 ft. to above 100 ft. high. 
¥ 1. Q. pepuNcuLaA‘TA Willd. The common, or peduncled, British Oak. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., No. 65. ; Ehr. Arb., 77. ; Pl. Off. 169. 
Synonymes. Q. Rdbur Lin. Sp. Pl., 1414., Sm. Fl. Br., No. 1., Eng. Bot., t. 1342., Woodv. Med. Bot., 
t. 136.; Q. R. unculatum Mart. Fl. Rust., t.10.; Q. tee’mina Roth Germ., 1., p. 408., 2. p. 2.488., 
Fl. Dan., t. 1180.; Q. racemosa N. Du Ham., 7. p. 177., Lam. Dict., Fo: 715.; Q. cum longo 
pedunculo Bauh, Pin., 420. ; Q. Hémeris Dalech. Hist., 4.; Quércus Fuchs Hist., 229., Matth. Vaigr. 
1. p. 184., Tabern. Kreuterb., 1374. ; @Q. navalis Burnet; Chéne blanc Secondat, p. 16. t. 3. ; Chene 
a Grappes, Chéne femelle, Gravelin, Fr.; Stiel Eiche, friih Eiche, Thal Eiche, Lohe Eiche, 
Wald Eiche, Ger. 
Derivation, The French and German names signify the white oak, the bunch-fruited oak, the female 
oak, the stalked oak, the early oak (alluding to the production of the leaves), the valley oak, the 
tanning oak, and the wood oak. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1342.; Woodv. Med. Bot.,t. 126.; Mart. FL Rust.,t.10.; Fl. Dan., 
t. 1180.; Du Ham. Arb., 2. t. 47.; Hunt. Evel. Syl., t. in p. 69.; N. Du Ham., 7. t. 54.; Willd. 
Abbild., t. 140. ; our fig. 1567. ; and the plates of this tree in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves deciduous, oblong, smooth, 
dilated upwards; sinuses rather acute; lobes 
obtuse. Stalks of the fruit elongated. Nut 
oblong. (Willd.) A tree, from 50 ft. to above 
100 ft. high, with spreading tortuous branches 
and spray, and, when standing singly, with a head 
often broader than it is high. It flowers in 
April, and ripens its fruit in the September 
following. 
Varieties. \ 
¥ Q. p. 2 pubéscens Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.— , 
Leaves downy beneath. There are plants 
at Messrs. Loddiges’s, with downy leaves, 
and the acorns on long footstalks; which ™ 
shows that they cannot belong to the Q. * 
pubéscens of Willd. 
¥ Q. p. 3 fastigiata ; Q. fastigiata Lam. Dict., 
i. p. 725., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 178. t. 55., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; 
Q. pyramidalis Hort.; Chéne Cyprés, Chéne des Pyrénées, Fr.; 
and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. — This is a hand- 
some tree, resembling in general form the Lombardy poplar. It 
is found in the valleys of the Western Pyrenees, and in the Landes, 
near Bordeaux, though but sparingly. According to Jaume Saint- 
Hilaire (Traité des Arb. For.), though it is found in the Pyrenees, 
the Basse Navarre, and the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, it is 
thought to be originally from Portugal. Capt. S. E. Cook found 
it in the Pyrenees, in the line to Bayonne, but rarely. He describes 
it as having a trunk rising only a little way above the roots, and 
then spreading into a head composed of small branches, as nu- 
merous and as vertical as those of the cypress. Bose (Mém. sur les 
Chénes) «lescribes it as the handsomest of all the oaks for orna- 
mental landscape; in our opinion an error in taste which he has 
fallen into from the novelty of its form in the oak family, since it is 
without either the grandeur or the beauty of the common species. In 
the Nouveau Du Hamel, a tree of this variety is mentioned, which had 
been sownin 1790 ; and, though it was twice afterwards transplanted, 
was, in 1819, upwards of 40ft. high. There are plants at Messrs. 
Loddiges’s, and a tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, of which 
latter the plate in our last volume is a portrait. A tree at Carlton, 
near Darlington, in 1835, was 20 ft. high, after being twenty years 
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