OAK 101 



Aspidiotus, Asterolecanium, Cossus, Orgyia, Pygcera, Tortrix, Cal- 

 lipterus, Lachnus, Phylloxera, Diplosis, Lecanium. 



Quercus, Pliny, is Latin for oak. Robur, Pliny, was a name for a 

 certain kind of oak. Oak is from the A.S. ac. 



The Oak is called Aac, Acharne, Acorn, Ackern, Ackeron, Acorn- 

 tree, Aik, Aik-tree, Akcorn, Ake, Akers, Ake-horn, Akernel, Akeron, 

 Akker, Akkern, Akran, Akyr, Archarde, Atchern, Atchorn, Cups-and- 

 Ladles, Cups-and-Saucers, Eike-tree, Frying Pans, Hatch-horn, Jove's 

 Nuts, Knappers, Mace, Mast, Oak Atchern, Oak, Black, Durmast 

 Oak, Ovest Pipes, Rump Trail Oke, Wuk, Yachraws, Yak, Yakker, 

 Yeaker, Yek, Yik. 



The name Pipes is given to the acorn-cup with stalk attached 

 resembling a pipe, which children carry in their mouths to pretend 

 they are smoking. The male catkins are called "The Trail" in the 

 New Forest. Cups and Ladles, &c., is a name for the husks of the 

 acorn, from their resemblance to these utensils. 



On the 29th May children distinguish the reddish -coloured leaves 

 as Girl's Oak, and the green leaves as Boy's Oak. Girls wear the 

 former and boys the latter. 



In Hants, a writer says: "The woodmen here talk of two kinds of 

 Oak, which they call the Black and White Oak, but the only intelli- 

 gible difference I could extract from their accounts is that the twigs 

 of one float whilst those of the other sink when thrown into water! 

 Some of the more observant, however, amongst them distinguish more 

 clearly our two species; the Q. sessiliflora they call White Oak and 

 Maiden Oak, as I have repeatedly ascertained." Durmast (Dunmast) 

 Oak is so called from the acorns being sometimes of a red or dun 

 colour. Oak Atchern is oak-berry. The pretty galls that grow upon 

 the leaves so abundantly are called oak-berries, and the larger ones on 

 the buds are, as is commonly the case, called oak-galls. 



Death was announced formerly in some parts to the nearest oak, a 

 tree around which many superstitions have gathered. Holes in oaks 

 were doors through which spirits of the trees passed, and the path- 

 ways of elves, children being cured by contact with them, and passed 

 through them. Dryads had their lives linked to a tree, which it was 

 fatal to injure. It was considered unlucky to fell an Oak. Hence Oaks 

 were used for marking boundaries of property. 



The early Greek and Latin authors believed in the tree descent of 

 man, and the Oak and Ash were supposed to have given rise to man. 

 The whole superstructure of Druidism was based on tree worship, in 

 which the Oak figured largely. Some even derive church or kirk 



