LXX. CORYLACEA5: QUE RCUS 



883 



Height 20ft. to 40ft. Introduced in 1730. Flowers greenish white; June. 

 Nut brown ; ripe in the autumn of the following year. Apparently nothing 

 more than a variety of Q. Ballota. 



Variety. 



1 * Q. (I. B.). 2 Cook'n. Q. Cook Arb. Brit. 1st edit. p. 1926. (Our Jig. 

 1616.) Either identical with the species, or a slight variety of it. 



A straggling tree, with numerous round grey branches, downy when young. 

 Leaves scarcely 1 in. long, rigid, broadly elliptical, often nearly orbicular ; very 

 much undulated at the margin, their deep, broad, spinous teeth pointing every 

 way, like those of the holly ; the upper surface dark green, rather glaucous, 

 besprinkled with minute starry hairs ; the under surface densely clothed with 

 white entangled down. In the Nouveau Du Hamel, great doubts are expressed 

 as to whether this species is identical wi'h the Q. rotundifolia of Lamarck ; 

 and whether both sorts may not be merely varieties of Q. /'lex, which we 

 believe to be the case. 



31. Q. COCCI'FERA L. The Kermcs, or Berry-bearing, Oak. 



. p. 245. ; /. 

 Querce del 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1413. ; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 1GO. 



Synonymes. IMex coccifera Cam. Epit. 774. ; /. aculeata cocci glandifera Garid. Aix. 



coccfgera Ger. Emac. p. 1342. ; Chene aux Kermes, Fr. ; Kermes Eiche, Ger. ; 



Kermes, Ital. 

 Engravings. Garid. Aix., t. 53. ; N. Du Ham., 7. t 46. ; Wats. Dend. Brit, t. 91.; our fig. 1617 



from the N. Du Ham., and./2#. 1618. from Watson. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rigid ; smooth on both sides, with 

 spreading, bristly, spinous teeth. Fruit on peduncles ; nut ovate. Calyx 

 with spreading, pointed, somewhat recurved scales (N. Du Ham.) A low 

 bushy evergreen shrub. South of Europe and the Levant. Height 3 ft. to 

 5ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers greenish white ; May. Acorns rarely 

 ripened in England. 



The whole plant resembles a holly in miniature ; but the leaves are of a 

 paler green, and they vary exceedingly in magnitude. This oak is well known 

 as producing the kermes, or scarlet grain, of com- 

 merce. The fruit is but of a very small size the 

 first year, and does not attain maturity till the 



1618. Q coccifera. 



end of the second. The nuts are oval, and are enveloped for half their length 

 in a cup furnished with rough scales terminating in rough points, which are 

 almost woody, spreading, and a little recurved. Propagated from the acorns, 

 which are received from the Continental nurserymen. 



1 * 32. Q. PSEI/DO-COCCI'FERA Desf. The false Kermes, or 

 Berry-bearing, Oak. 



Identification. Desf. AtL, 2. p. 349. ; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 160. 

 Synonymes. Chene a faux Kermes, Fr. ; ytechernde Eiche, Ger. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., t. 48. f. 1. ; and our Jig. 16)9. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rigid, smooth on both 

 sides, with spiny serratures. Nut ovate. Calyx with flat slightly 

 spreading scales. (Desf.) " Observed by Desfontaines at Algiers 



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