CHAP. CV. CORYLA CER, QUE/RCUS. 1897 
and tenacity, and to split less easily than that of the white oak; hence, after 
having been thoroughly seasoned, it is employed for the felloes of wheels. In 
Georgia, fences are sometimes made of this oak; but they do not last longer 
than eight or ten years. As fuel, the wood of this tree sells at the lowest 
price. Several of the varieties mentioned have been introduced into Britain ; 
but we have never seen any of them except one, which has the leaves rather 
broader than those of the species, but which is hardly worth keeping distinct. 
It is highly probable that, in our soil and climate, all those differences in the 
magnitude of the plant, and in the character of the foliage, produced by the 
geographical and geological circumstances by which the tree is accompanied 
in America, disappear, or, rather, are never produced. The tree, in England, 
is one of the hardiest and most rapid-growing of American oaks; and it 
may be also characterised as the least beautiful, its foliage being light in 
— thinly spread over the tree, and dying off, in autumn, with very little 
change. 
Statistics. In the environs of London, at Syon, it is 64 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft. 6in., 
and of the head 47 ft. (see the portrait of this tree in our last Volume) ; in the Mile-End Nursery it 
is 34 ft. high; at Whitton Place it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. Gin. ; at Ken- 
wood, Hampstead, 60 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft.4in., and 
of the head 44ft. In Devonshire, in the Exeter Nursery, 53 years planted, it is 26ft. high, with 
a trunk 1ft.6in. in diameter ; in Surrey, at Pepper Harrow, it is 70ft. high; in Wiltshire, at 
Longleat, 65 years planted, it is 58 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1ft. 7 in., and of the head 
14ft; in Worcestershire, at Croome, 40 years planted, it is 35ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
10 in., and of the head 15 ft. In France, at Toulon, in the Botanic Garden, 36 years planted, it is 
20 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 7in. In Austria, near Vienna, at Briick on the Leytha, 
20 years old, it is 7ft. high. In Lombardy, at Monza, 24 years planted, it is 44 ft. high, the diameter 
of the trunk 9in., and of the head 20 ft. ‘ 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6d. each, 
and acorns 5s. per bushel. Seedling plants of one year are 10s. per hundred ; 
one year transplanted, 25s. per hundred. At Bollwyller plants are 3 francs 
each ; and at New York plants are 3734 cents each. 
¥ 27. Q. (P.) rauriFo‘L1a Willd. The Laurel-leaved Oak. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4 p. 427.; Ait., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 627.; Michx. Quer. 
No. 10.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 153. ; Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 14 r ¢ Quer, 
Synonymes. The Laurel Oak, Swamp Willow Oak. 
Engravings. Michx. Quer., t. 17. ; and our jig. 1776. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves obovate, entire, smooth, nearly sessile ; tapering at 
the base. Nut roundish, even. (Smith.) A tree, 50 ft. or 60 ft. high; a 
native of South Carolina and Georgia. Introduced in 1786. 
Variety. 
EA Q. (P.) L 2 h¥brida Michx. Quer., No. 10. t. 18., and our - 1775.; Q. 1.2 obtisa Ait. 
Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 288., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., ii. p. 627. ; has rather more obtuse 
leaves than the species. This variety is sup) , by the elder Michaux, to be a hybrid 
between Q. aquatica and Q. Jaurifolia ; 
because the shape of its leaves resembles 
the former species, while the general cha- 
racter and habit of growth of the tree 
resemble those of Q. daurifdlia. It grows 
on the banks of the rivers in the pine 
barrens, where the soil, at a little distance 
from the water, is only a dry sand. 
Description, §c. This oak, which rises 
to the height of 50 ft., or 60 ft., is said by , 
the elder Michaux to be very nearly allied to Q. Phéllos. He adds that its timber 
is very valuable, resembling that of the live oak, which is considered preferable 
