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name grown at Kew sixty to seventy years ago had all its leaf-stalks about 

 | in. long. Originally discovered in the early part of the eighteenth century 

 by Bartram, near Philadelphia. 



Q. LIIJANI, Olivier. LEBANON OAK. 



A deciduous tree of elegant growth not apparently attaining to a great 

 size ; young shoots clothed at first with minute down. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, rounded at the base, tapered to a fine point ; 2 to 4 ins. long, 

 to i in. wide ; dark glossy green above, paler green beneath ; stalk about 



QUKRCUS LlBAKI. 



\ in. long. On our cultivated trees the leaves soon become smooth on both 

 surfaces except for a few hairs on the midrib and veins, but on wild specimens 

 the under-surface is frequently thickly covered with down. Springing from 

 each side of the midrib at an angle of 45, and running out to the margin, 

 where each forms the bristle-like point to a triangular tooth, are nine to 

 twelve parallel veins. Acorns solitary or in pairs on a thick woody stalk \ in. 

 or more long, on which they ripen the second year ; they are about I in. 

 long on cultivated trees and more than half enclosed in a large cup. 



Native of the mountains of Syria, including Mt. Lebanon, and of Asia 

 Minor; introduced to Paris about 1855. Although the branches are slender 

 and elegant they are scarcely pendulous on young trees. Acorns are 

 frequently produced, but they do not become so large as those of some native 



