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AllBOKETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART J II. 



closely adpressed. (Spretig.) " A tall tree, a native of Portugal, in the south 

 of Beira, and on the hills near Coinibra ; flowering in May. It appears to 

 be a hybrid between Q, /?6bur and Q. pubescens. It is not found in any 

 of the mountainous parts of the north of Portugal ; but there it is probably 

 chan^ied to Q. 7?6bur." (Brotero's Fl. Liis., ii. p. 31.) The Q. australis of 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden has the leaves glaucous beneath. What- 

 ever species this oak may turn out to be, it promises to be a very handsome 

 evergreen, as hardy as Q. /'lex ; and we hope it will soon be generally in- 

 troduced into collections. 



i. 4J-. Q. Coo^K//. Captain Cook's Oak. 

 Description. Leaves evergreen ; oval or lanceolate-elliptic ; dentate, 

 with recurved teeth; sessile, and green and glabrous on both sides. (See 

 ^g. 1815.) Among the acorns procured by the Horticultural Society 

 from Gibraltar appeal' to be some of a 1815 ' ~^ 



species different from Q. australis; or, ^ ^' 



possibly, it may be only a variety of 

 Q. grarauntia. As there are only two- 

 years' seedling plants in the country, very 

 little can be said about it ; but we have 

 ventured to apply to it the specific name 

 above given, in honour of Captain S. E. 

 Cook of Carlton, near Darlington, who 

 was the means of its introduction, who 

 is an enthusiastic arboriculturist, and 

 who has kindly and liberally supplied us 

 with valuable information respecting 

 Quercus, Pinus and other genera. 



5 45. Q. FALKENBERGENSis Booth. The Falkenberg Oak. • 



Desaiption. Allied to the section 7?6bur, but with leaves short, and ser- 

 rated like those of Q. Cerris. Fruit small and roundish, and reproducing 

 plants with the same characters as the parent. Discovered about 1832, on 

 the Falkenberg in Hanover, near Hamburgh, and introduced into England 

 by the Duke of Bedford in 1837. {Booth, in letter; and Forbes's Hort. Tour., 

 p. 5.) 



App. ii. European Kinds of Oaks not yet introduced. 



Q. taglnca Lam ; Q. iPgilopifftlia >.., 



Did., 1. p. 725., n'i/ld.. No. fi8., X. 



Du Ham., 7. p. 179., Rees's Cycl. No. 

 76. ; Phellodrys &lba angustifblia, &r., 

 Dalech. Hist., 25. ; and our fi.^. 1816., 

 from the specimen in the Linnsean 

 herbarium. Leaves on short downy 

 footstalks, obovate, with numerous uni- 

 form shallow lobes; downy beneath; 

 somewhat heart-shaped and unequal at 

 the base. Fruit sessile. (.S'/h)<A.) Native 

 of Spain and the south of France. 

 Leaves small, 1^ in. long, deciduous, 

 obovate, very slightly sinuated, or, 

 more properly speaking, coarsely tooth- 

 ed ; the lobes being very short, equal, 

 and obtuse ; the upper side polished 

 and smooth; the under white and 

 downy. Footstalks downy. Fruit ses- 

 iile. {li'illfi.) In the Linna;an her- 

 barium are specimens ^gathered by 

 Baron Alstroemcr in Spain, which 

 answer extremely well to the above 

 description, and not amiss to the figure 

 of Dalechamp, which Lamarck cites with hesitation. In these, however, the lolx», or teeth, are 

 acute, and the upper surface covered with minute starry hairs. There are also long, linear, 

 recurved, ramentaceous stipules, that are soon deciduous. We do not scruple to consider this 

 Lamarck's plant at least, and probably Willdenow's. (Smtlh in liers's Cycl.) 



Q. meilopijhlia Pers Syn. 2, p. .T70, ; N. Ou Ham., 7. p. 174. ; Q. hispAnira /3. I.nni. Dirt. Ency., 

 1. p. 7'ij. ; Chene i Fcuilles d'Egilops, Hose ; has o\al, sinuated, and dcntatcd leaves, the teeth of 



