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A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 854). 



Quercus Robur. In woods, thickets, copses and hedges throughout 

 the county and Isle of Wight ; most abundantly. This is the com- 

 mon oak, not only in Hants, but I believe in most of the southern 

 and eastern parts of England. 



— ■ sessiliflora. In similar places with the last, but much 



more rarely, although I fear scarcely distinct as a species from the 

 foregoing. In the sandy soil of Bordwood Copse, near Newchurch, 

 where it was pointed out to me by Mr. Borrer during an excursion 

 with that gentleman and Dr. T. Bell Salter, in August, 1844, growing 

 with Q. Robur in about equal proportion. Since observed by myself 

 in other parts of this island. A tree or two on the margin of Quarr 

 Copse, by the side of the Newport road. In East Standen Copse, 

 near Newport. A very fine round-topped tree in Elm Copse, betwixt 

 Calbourne and Shalfleet. In a small hilly wood of scrubby oak 

 bushes belonging apparently for the most part to Q. sessiliflora, close 

 to Fareham, on the north side, overlooking the town, and where I 

 also found Pyrus torminalis, but not in any abundance, July, 1849. 

 Observed near Empshot, and in other parts of the county this year. 

 Var. |3. Leaves downy underneath. Durmast [quasi dunmast) oak, 

 the acorns being sometimes of a reddish or dun colour, as I have 

 found them in this island near Shalfleet. In the New Forest ; Mar- 

 tyn. A puzzling species, if such it be, not always very well marked, 

 but distinguishable in its most defined form from Q. Robur by its 

 usually larger and broader, flatter and more regularly spreading or 

 imbricated leaves, which are distinctly petiolate (the petioles yellow- 

 ish or reddish), in general of a brighter, more shining green, some- 

 times, however, dark green, for the most part obovate rather than 

 oblong, more regularly and evenly sinuate, the sinuses more exactly 

 opposite and inclined to acuteness at bottom rather than to be round- 

 ed or obtuse ; by a greater massiveness of foliage and compactness 

 of the whole tree, which is, I think, more disposed than Q. Robur to 

 assume a rounded head ; by its more horizontally spreading, less tor- 

 tuous branches and spray, larger-sized leaf-buds, and essentially by 

 bearing acorns that are either quite sessile, or wholly or in part on 

 short, erect, stout peduncles, and in general more numerously clus- 



