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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Flowers and acorns have been produced in the Mile End Nursery. 

 The leaves vary considerably in size, but not much in form, or in the cha- 

 racter of their margins. Readily propagated by grafting on the common oak, 

 from which, in summer, it can scarcely be distinguished at a distance, as its 

 branches andleaves are so similar ; but, in winter, its thick, glossy, and strictly 

 evergreen foliage has a fine effect. On the whole, it is an exceedingly distinct 

 and very handsome tree, by no means liable to vary in the form of its foliage, 

 like what may be called the natural species of European and American oaks. 

 It is rather more tender than Q. Cerris Lucombeana, but, nevertheless, it retains 

 its foliage nearly as long as that species. 



36. Q. HY'BRIDA NA'NA. The dwarf hybrid Oak. 



Synonymes. Q. hybrida Lodd. Cat. 1836; Q. " a hybrid between Q. pedunculata and Q. /'lex, in 



the Horticultural Society's Garden ; " Q. htimilis Hort. ; Q. n&ua Hort. 

 Engravings. Our Jigs. 1627. and 1628. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely dentate, smooth, and of 

 the same colour on both sides. Footstalks short. A sub-evergreen bush. 

 Found, about 1825, in a bed of seedling oaks in the Bristol Nursery, where 

 the original plant, in May, 1837, was between 8 ft. and 9 ft. high, with a 

 trunk 8 in. in circumference at 1 ft. from the ground. Flowers ?. 

 Tn summer, the leaves, at a distance, bear a considerable resemblance to 

 those of the common oak ; but, on a nearer inspection, they appear as in fig. 

 1627. or in Jig. 1628. : the first from the specimen tree in the Hackney arbo- 

 retum, and the second from the arboretum at Milford. Towards the autumn, 



those shoots which have con- 

 tinued growing exhibit leaves 

 on their extremities so exactly 

 like those of Q. Turnen, that 

 it is altogether impossible to 



make any distinction between them. Propagated by grafting on the common 

 oak. ^g. 1629. exhibits leaves (a, b) taken from the extremities of the 

 shoots, in different parts of the same plant. 



B. Natives of North America. 

 ix. Virentes. Live Oaks. 



Sect. Char. Leaves oblong-lanceolate ; dentate, and variously cut when youno-; 

 but, on full-grown trees, quite entire. Bark smooth, black. Fructification 

 biennial. Cup imbricate. Nut long. Low trees or shrubs ; rather tender 

 in Britain, and not attaining a timber-like size north of London. 



37. Q. vf RENS Ait. 



Identification. 



Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 

 Ph&llos ? Lt ' n ' *- 



The green, or Live, Oak. 



. 626 Michx Ouer 

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., 3. p. 356. ; Pursh Sept., 

 l&| Q. 



No 



the piate f this t 



Spec. Cha>\, $ c . Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, revolute, entire, point- 

 less ; obtuse at the base ; clothed with starry down beneath. Fruit stalked. 

 Nut oblong. (IVilM.) An evergreen tree. North America, in the maritime 



