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also of considerable flexibility. Boutclier recommends the tree for making 

 warm and lofty hedges, 40 or 50 feet high, in a short time. A dry deep soil, 

 calcareous or sandy rather than clayey, and a situation low rather than 

 elevated, best suit the ilex. It is exceedingly difficult to propagate, other- 

 wise than by the acorn ; and no tree is more difficult to transplant, " as the 

 roots of it, when not interrupted, run as straight down into the earth as a 

 carrot ;" and hence the best mode is to have the plants raised in small pots, 

 one in a pot, as is generally practised in the London nurseries. 



29. Q. (7.) HALLOA TA Desf. The sweet Acorn Oak. 



Identification. Desf. All., 2. p. 350. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 432. ; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 157. 

 ymes. ? ZMex major Clus. Hist. 1. t. 23. ; Chene a Glands doux, Chfine Ballote, Fr. 



ivation. The term Ballota seems to be a modification of the Spanish word bcllota, which means 

 acorns generally. 



Engravings. Our figs. 1612. and 1613., the latter being a sprig, and the former a leaf of the natural 

 size, both taken from a specimen of the original tree, planted by Desfoutaines in the Jardin des 

 Plantes, at Paris. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptical, coriaceous, denticulated or entire ; downy 

 beneath. Bark even. Nut cylindrical, elongated. (Desf.) An 

 evergreen tree or large bush. Bar- 

 bary, in Algiers and Morocco. 

 v Height 20 or 30 feet, with a trunk 



from 3 ft. to 6 ft. in circumference. 

 Introduced in 1696. 



Obviously a variety of Q. /lex ; 

 from which, however, it differs in its 

 leaves being more rounded at the 

 ends, and also more white and cottony 

 beneath, and of a more coriaceous 

 texture; and in its acorn being of 



double the length of that of Q. /"lex, and in having a mild and 1013 Q. ,/.) c//,v. 



agreeable taste. 



t * 30. Q. (/. B.) GRAMU'NTIA L. The Holly-leaved Grammont Oak. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1413. ; N. Du Ham., 7- p. 158. 



Synonymes. ? /'lex foliis rotundioribus, &c., Magn. Monsp. 140. ; Chene de Grammont, Fr. ; Wel- 

 lenblattrige Eiche, Ger. ; Encina dulce, and Gouetta, Span. Captain S. E. Cook suggests that 

 Q. hispaniea would be the most suitable name for this species, which may be considered as forming 

 the natural oak of Spain ; whereas the term gramuntia was applied to it by Linnaeus, from its 

 having been found in the remnant of a wood on the estate of Grammont, near Montpelier, where, 

 according to DeCandolle, the species no longer exists. 



Engravings. Our fig. 1614., from the tree at Purser's Cross ; fig. 1615., an acorn of the natural size, 

 traced from one that was sent to us by Captain Cook ; and the plate of the tree at Purser's Cross, 

 in Arb. Brit, 1st edit 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves roundish-elliptical, nearly 

 sessile, undulated, with deep, spinous, divaricated 



IfU. Q. (I. B.) gramuntia. 



1615. Q. {I. B.) gramtintia. 



1616. Q. (I. B.) g. C<x5k 



teeth ; densely downy beneath ; heart-shaped at the base. An evergreen 

 tree or large bush. Grammont, near Montpelier; and throughout Spain. 



