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to be closely allied to Q. Tarneri: but, the leaves of the former will always 
be found to be somewhat downy beneath; while those of Q. Turneri are 
perfectly smooth, and of the same colour on both sides. Neither sort 
appears to show the least indication, at present, of corkiness in the bark ; 
though trees of Q. Suber in both places, standing near them, have the 
bark decidedly corky. Unless, therefore, we could see the tree at Versailles, 
we cannot decide whether the plant in British gardens is that discovered 
by Desfontaines, or not. If it is, it certainly appears much more nearly 
allied to the group Cérris than to that of I‘lex. The tree in Loddiges’s 
arboretum is 7 ft. high, and, in February, 1837, had lost every leaf; as had, 
with the exception of a very few, that in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
in 1835, when it was of about the same age and size. After all, we 
think it extremely probable, that the tree at Muswell Hill is the Q. Psetdo- 
Suber of Desfontaines ; but as we have not seen the acorns, either of that 
tree, or of the Q. Psetido-Stber in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, or 
at Messrs. Loddiges’s, we should not consider ourselves justified in deciding 
on the point. We may possibly be able to do so in our Supplement. 
b. Natives of North America. 
§ix. Viréntes. Live Oaks. 
Sect. Char. Leaves oblong-lanceolate; dentate, and variously cut when 
young; but, on full-grown trees, quite entire. Bark smooth, black. Fruc- 
tification biennial. Cup imbricate. Nut long. Low trees, or shrubs; rather 
tender in Britain, and not attaining a timber-like size north of London. 
2 36. Q. vi'reNs Ait. The green, or Live, Oak. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 356., ed. 2., 5. p. 287.; N. Du Ham. 7. p. 151.; Willd. 
a Bee 4. p. 425.; Pursh Fl, Amer, Sept., p. 626.; Michx. Quer., No. 6.; Smith in Rees’s Cycl., 
0. 
Synonymes. Q. Phéllos 6 Lin. Sp. Pl., 1412.; Q. sempervirens Banister and Walt. Car., 234, 
Engravings. Michx. Quer., t.10, 11.; N. Amer, Syl., 1. t. 12; our jigs. 1802. and 1803; and the plate 
, of this tree in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, revolute, entire, point- 
less; obtuse at the base; clothed with starry down beneath. Fruit stalked. 
Nut oblong. (Willd. and Smith.) 
Description. The live oak is commonly 40 ft. or 45 ft. high, with a trunk 
from 1 ft. to 2 ft. in diameter; but it is sometimes much larger; and a hollow 
tree of it was felled at Charleston, which had a trunk 24 ft. in circumference. 
“* Like most other trees,” says Michaux, “ it has, when insulated, a wide and 
tufted summit. Its trunk is sometimes undivided for 18 ft. or 20 ft.; but it 
often ramifies at half this height, and, at a 
distance, has the appearance of an old apple 
or pear tree.” (N. Amer. Syl., i. p. 58.) The 
bark is blackish and hard. The wood is 
heavy, compact, fine-grained, and of a yellow- 
ish colour, which deepens as the tree advances 
in age. The number and closeness of the 
concentric circles evince the slowness of its 
growth, and the probability of its great dura- 
tion, from the much larger proportion of 
fibrous than of cellular tissue in its compo- 
sition. The leaves are oval, coriaceous, of 
a dark green above, and whitish beneath : 
they persist during several years, but are par- 
tially renewed every spring. On old trees, 
growing wild in the forests, they are always 
entire, as shown in fig, 1802.; but, on seed- 
lings of 2 or 3 years old, they are very dis- 
tinctly toothed, as in fig. 1803. On trees growing in cool soils, or reared in 
plantations, they are one half larger than those on the trees usually found in a 
