CHAP. CV. 



CORVLA^CEiE. QUE'RCUS. 



1731 



A. Leaves deciduous. 



§ i. ^bhur. British Oaks. 



Sect. Char. Leaves lobed and serrated ; dying off of a yellowish or russet 

 brown. Bark rough. Buds ovate. Fructification annual. Cups imbricate. 

 Trees from 30 ft. to above 100 ft. high. 



1 1. Q. PEDUNCULA^TA WiUd. Tfxc comvwn, or peduncled, J?nVJ«// Oak. 



Idcnt>ficatl07i. Willd. Sp. PI., No. 65. ; Ehr. Arb., 77. ; PI. OfT, 16a 



1 I) US4 Tdbcrn Krcutcrb.,\51i. ; «. navMis B?/rnr/; Chone blanc Afcorada*, p. H). t. ^. ; inene 



a Grappc's, CliOne femelle, Gravelin, Fr. ; Sticl Eiche, friih Eiche, Thai Eiche, Lohe Eiche, 



Wild Eiche Crcr 

 Derivation. The French and German names signify the white oak, the bunch-fruited oak the female 



oak, the stalked oak, the early oak (alluding to the production of the leaves), the valley oak, the 



tanning oak, and the wood oak. ,, ^ t-i t> .^ .. ir. -n t-. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. l;542. ; Woodv. Med. Bot., t. 126. ; Mart. Fl Rust., t. 10. ;F1. Dan , 



t 1180 t Da Ham. Arb., 2. t. 47. ; Hunt. Evel. Syl., t. in p. 6'.l. ; N. Du Ham., 7. t. 54. ; Willd. 



Abbild., t. 140. ; our. fig. 1567. ; and the plates of this tree m our last \ olume. 



Spec. Char. ,L^c. Leaves deciduous, oblong, smooth, 

 dilated upwards ; sinuses rather acute ; lobes 

 obtuse. Stalks of the fruit elongated. Nut 

 oblong. {Willd.) A tree, from 50 ft. to above 

 100 ft. high, with spreading tortuous branches 

 and spray, and, when standing singly, with a head 

 often broader than it is high. It flowers in 

 April, and ripens its fruit in the September 

 following. 



Varieties. 



t Q. p. 2jmbescens Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.— 

 Leaves downy beneath. There are plants 

 at Messrs. Loddiges's, with downy leaves, 

 and the acorns on long footstalks; which 

 shows that they cannot belong to the Q. 

 pubescens of Willd. 

 ± Q. p. 3 fastigidta ; Q. fastigiata Lain. Diet., 



i. p. 725., iV^. Du Ham., vii. p. 178. t. 55., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; 

 Q. pyramidalis Hot. ; Chene Cypres, C'hene des Pyrenees, Fr. ; 

 and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. — This is a hand- 

 some tree, resembling in general form the Lombardy poplar. It 

 is found in the valleys of the Western Pyrenees, and in the Landes, 

 near Bordeaux, though but sparingly. According to Jaume Saint- 

 Hilaire (Traitc des Arb. For.), though it is found in the Pyrenees, 

 the Basse Navarre, and the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, it is 

 thought to be originally from Portugal. Capt. S. E. Cook found 

 it in the Pyrenees, in the line to Bayonne, but rarely. He ilescribes 

 it as having a trunk rising only a little way above the roots, and 

 then spreading into a head composed of small branches, as nu- 

 merous and as vertical as those of tlie cypress. Bosc (Mem. sur les 

 Chenes) describes it as the handsomest of all the oaks for orna- 

 mental landscape ; in oiu' opinion an error in taste which he has 

 fallen into from the novelty of its form in the oak family, since it is 

 without either the grandeur or the beauty of the common species. In 

 the Xouveau Du Hamel, a tree of this variety is mentioned, which had 

 been sown in 1790 ; and, though it was twice afterwards transplanted, 

 was, in 1819, upwards of 40 ft. high. There are plants at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, and a tree in the Horticultural Society's Gar<len, of which 

 latter the plate in our last volume is a portrait. A tree at Carlton, 

 near Darlington, in 1835, was 20 ft. high, after being twenty years 

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