CHAP. CV. _ CORYLA‘CEE. QUE/RCUS. 1847 
* Foliage deciduous. 
a. Leaves pinnatifid or sinuated. . Cups of the Acorns mossy. 
¥ Q. C. 1 vulgaris, Q. C. fronddsa Mill. 
Dict., ed. 5. (see fig. 1702., and the 
plates of this tree in our last Volume), 
has the leaves pinnatifidly sinuated, and 
the cups covered with soft moss. Of 
this variety there is an endless number — 
of subvarieties. F%g.1702. may be con- < 
sidered as the normal form : fig. 1704. 
has the leaves more deeply sinuated : 
Jig. 1703. is from a specimen of great 
beauty, sent us by Thomas Brooks, 
Esq., of Flitwick House : and fig. 1705., 
copied from the figure given in Olivier’s 
Travels, is the Q.crinita var. ¢, Lam. 7™~ 
Dict., i. p. 718:, Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 82.; Q. Tourneforti 
Willd., No.74., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 183.; Q. orientalis latifolia, &c., 
Tourn. Cor., 40., Voy., ii. p. 172.; Q. Cérris Oliv. Voy.,i. p. 221., 
Eng. ed., ii. p. 5. and t. 12.; and Q. Hali- 
phlee‘os Bose Mém. sur les Chénes. This 
oak was originally gathered by Tournefort 
in valleys and plains near Tocat, in Armenia. 
Olivier says it is met with throughout great 
art of Asia Minor and Syria. The timber 
is brought to the arsenal of Constantinople 
from the southern shores of the Black Sea, 
and is commonly employed in ship-build- 
ing, and also for the framework of houses. 
The tree grows to a considerable height, and 
furnishes excellent wood. In British plant- 
ations, it is one of the most ordinary forms 
in which the species rises from seed. From 
the acorns of any one_of these subvarieties, all the others, and many 
more, will seldom fail to be produced in the same seed-bed, and, 
indeed, sometimes on the 1706 
same tree, or even on the 
same twig. Fig.1706.shows 
portraits of three leaves, 
taken from a specimen of 
Q. Cérris vulgaris, gathered 4 
in the arboretum at Milford, 
in 1835, and there errone- 
ously named Q. lusitanica. 
We have observed a similar 
diversity of appearance in the leaves of an old tree of Q. Cérris in 
the grounds at Buckingham Palace. 
* Q. C. 2 péndula Neill in Lauder’s Gilpin, vol.i. p.73. The pendulous, 
or weeping, Turkey Oak.— There is a specimen of this variety 
in the experimental garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, 
which was procured from the Botanic Garden, Amsterdam; but the 
handsomest tree of the kind in Britain, or perhaps in Europe, is pro- 
bably that at Hackwood Park, from a specimen of which fig. 1707. 
was taken. This tree, which was planted in 1800, was, in 1836, nearly 
40 ft. high, with a trunk clear of branches to the height of 8 ft. 9 in., 
which, at the surface of the ground, was 2ft. 9%in. in circumference. 
The branches not only droop to the ground, but, after touching it, 
they creep along the surface to some distance, like those of Sophora 
