CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CEA. QUE/RCUS. 1917 
Poetical Allusions. There are very few. Lord Byron speaks of 
“ The cork trees hoar that crown the shaggy steep,” 
in his Childe Harold ; and Southey describes their appearance in the gleam of 
a traveller’s fire, in his Roderick, the Last of the Goths : — 
“* Bright rose the flame replenish’d: it illumed 
The cork tree’s furrow’'d rind, its rifts and swells, 
And redder scars, and, where its aged boughs 
O’erbower’d the travellers, cast upon the leaves 
A floating, grey, unrealising gloom.” 
Statistics. Yn the environs of London, at Ham House, Essex, the cork tree is 97 ft. high, the 
diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 10 in., and of the head 23 ft. ; at Kenwood, Hampstead, 60 years planted, 
it is 35 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 40 ft. ; at Fulham Palace, 150 years 
old, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3ft. 6in., and of the head 24ft.; in the Mile End 
Nursery, it is 28 ft, high, the circumference of the trunk 4 ft. 4in.—South of London. In Devonshire, 
at Killerton, 34 years planted, it is 57 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 41 ft. ; 
at Brochill, 45 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3ft., and of the head 45ft. In Somersetshire, 
at Nettlecombe, 60 years planted, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 10in., and that 
of the head 28ft. In Suffolk, at Campsey Ash, it was 26ft. high, with a trunk 2 ft. 3in. in 
diameter. This tree, we are informed, is since dead. In Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50 years 
planted, it is 30 ft. high ; at Claremont, it is 40ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3ft. 6in., and 
that of the head 50 ft.—North of London. In Cheshire, at Eaton Hall, 8 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. 
In Denbighshire, at Llanbede Hall, 15 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. In Pembrokeshire, at Stack- 
pole Court, 100 years old, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 40 ft. In 
Suffolk, at Finborough Hall, 16 ea planted, it is 12 ft. high; the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and 
of the head 10ft. In Warwickshire, at Coombe Abbey, 60 years planted, it is 64 ft. high, the 
diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 8in., and of the head 20ft. In Worcestershire, at Croome, 40 years 
planted, it is 35 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 10in., and of the head 15 ft.—In Ireland, in the 
Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 15 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 10 in., and of 
the head 12 ft.; at Cypress Grove, it is 45ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6in., and of the 
head 97 ft.; at Castletown, it is 28 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 8 in., and of the head 24 ft. 
—In Switzerland, at the seat of M. Gaussen, Bourdigny, near Geneva, it is 3 ft. 4in. in circumference, 
—lIn Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 14 years planted, it is 12 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 
1 ft., and the diameter of the head 10 ft, 
2 35. Q. PsEu‘po-Su‘BerR Desf. The False-Cork Oak. 
Identification. Desf. Atlan., 2. p. 348.; Spreng. Antiq. Bot., p. 16. t. 1.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 174.; 
Willd., No. 60.; Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 67. 
Sunonymes. Chéne faux Liége, Chéne de Gibraltar, Fr.; Uniichte Kork-Eiche, Ger. Bose states 
that he possesses a leaf of Q. Tarner7, which was brought to him from Kew by L’Héritier, and 
that it is identical with Q. Pseddo-Suber ; but the leaves of Q. Tarneri are not in the slightest 
degree hoary or glaucous beneath, nor has it a corky bark. 
Engravings. Sant. Viagg., t. 4.; Spreng. Antiq. Bot., t. 1.; N. Da Ham., 7. t. 48. f. 2.; andiour 
Jig. 1801. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate, sinuated, dentated or 
serrated ; hoary beneath. Bark fungous, cracked. Nut ovate. Calyx mu- 
ricated, with lax, recurved, linear scales. (Desf.) Native of the mountains 
of Tuscany, Spain, and Barbary. Desfontaines ga- 
thered it on Mount Atlas, and the Abbé Durand, near 
Tangier. A tree, 50 ft. or 60 ft. high; the bark of 
which is corky, though less so than that of Q. Stiber. 
Young branches downy or hoary ; sometimes smooth, 
striated. Desfontaines describes the bark as fungous 
as very thick, and as being, without doubt, capable of 
replacing the cork of Europe. The leaves are oval- 
oblong, dentated or serrated ; smooth above, and pu- 
bescent beneath. He adds that the leaves do not 
drop during winter; while in the Nouveau Du Hamel, in Bosc, and under 
the article Q. Psetido-Stber in Rees’s Cyclopedia, they are déscribed as 
deciduous. Bosc, indeed, states that the leaves remain green a part of 
the winter; so that the tree may be considered as forming the connect- 
ing link between the evergreen oaks and the deciduous ones. A tree of 
Q. Psetido-Stber was planted in the garden of M. Lemonnier, near Ver- 
sailles, by M. A. Richard, in 1754, which is stated to have proved quite 
hardy, and of vigorous growth, though, in 1820, it had not produced fruit. 
We have not been able to get any account of the present state of this tree ; 
but we can easily conceive that it may be evergreen on the shores of the 
Mediterranean, and only subevergreen in the neighbourhood of Paris or 
London. The specimens of this tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden 
(lately, 1837, dead), and at Messrs. Loddiges’s, have always appeared to us 
