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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



beauty, sent us by John Thomas Brook, 

 Esq., of Flitwick House : and fig. 

 1335., copied from the figure given 

 in Olivier's Travels, is the Q. crinita 

 var. Lam. Diet. i. p. 718. ; Q,. Tour- 

 nefortH Willd. No. 74. ; Q. orientalis 

 latifolia, &c., Tourn. Cor. 40., Vuy. 

 ii. p. 172.; Q. Cerris Oliv. Voy. i. p. 

 221., Eng. ed. ii. p. 5. and t. 12. ; 

 and Q. i/aliphloe^os Bosc Mem. sur 

 les Chenes. Fig. 1536. shows portraits 

 of three leaves, taken from a s[)ecimen 

 of Q. Cerris vulgaris gathered in the 

 arboretum at Milford in 1835, and 

 there erroneously named Q. lusitanica. 

 We have observed a similar diversity of appearance in the leaves 



of an old tree of Q. Cerris in the grounds at 



Buckmgham Palace. 



1554. Q. C. vulgitis. 



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1555. Q. C. vulgaris. 



1556. Q. C. vulgkris. 



5" Q. C. 2 jomdtda Neill in Lauder's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 73. Branches pen- 

 dulous. The hantlsomest tree of this variety in Britain is proba- 

 bly that at Hackwood Park, 40 ft. high, from a specimen of which 

 Jig. 1357. was taken. The branches not only droop to the groand, 



but, after touching it, they creep 

 along the surface to some distance, 

 like those of Sophhra japonica 

 pendula, p. 196. 

 t Q. O. 3 ladnidta. (/j?. 1558.) Tliere 

 is a fine tree of this interesting 

 variety in Hackwood Park. 



1557. Q. C. pdndula, 1558. (j. C. laciniMa. 



* Q. C. 4 variegdta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. Lea\es variegated. 



b. Leaves dentate. Cups of the Acorns bristly. 

 t Q. C. 3 ausirtaca. Q. austriaca Wi/ld. No. 76. ; Q. Cerris Host Syn. 

 320., a and /3 No. 28. ; Q. crinita y Cerris Lin., Lam. Did. u p. 



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