LXX. CORYLA CE^ : QUE RCUS. 



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their sides excurved, and their vertices shortly nmcronate. (Wats.) 

 This is a fine broad-leaved sub-evergreen variety, of which there is a 

 magnificent specimen in tlie Fidham Nursery. 



If Q. C. [Of.lafifulia Hurt.' Leaves broader than those of the preceding 

 variety. 



Q. C. 11 Lucombeana. Q. LuconibertHfl Swt. ; Q. exoniensis Lodd. 

 Cat. ed. 1836 ; the Lucombe Oak, the everg een Turkey Oak, the 

 Devonshire Oak, the Exeter Oak. (See the plate of this tree in 

 Arb. Brit., 1st edit.; and our /g. 1562.) Raised by Lucombe, 

 nurseryman at Exeter, from seeds of the species sown about 

 1762, and so closely resembling Q. C. fulhamensis as scarcely to be 

 worth keeping distinct. 



*** Foliage evergreen, or very nearly so. Leaves varying frovi dentate to 

 sinuate. Cups of the Acorns bristly. 



This section consists entirely of subvarie- 

 ties of the Lucombe Oak, which differ 

 from the parent in being nearly evergreen. 



i Q. C. 12 Z/. crispa. Q. LucombeaHa 



crispa Hurt. ; the new Lucombe Oak. 



(fig. 1363.) Leaves somewhat 



curled at the edges, and the bark 



corky. 

 1 Q. C. 13 L. suberdsa. Q. L. suberosa 



Hort. Leaves somewhat longer 



than in the preceding variety, and the 



bark double the thickness ; that from 



a specimen sent us measuring 2 in. in 



thickness. 

 i. Q. C. 14 i. inclsa. Q. L. incisa Hort. 



Leaves longer, and somewhat more 



deeply cut, than those of the preced- 

 ing varieties. 

 1 Q. C. 15 L. dentdta. Q. L. dentata 



Hort. A fine large-leaved evergreen 



variety, lately raised in the Exeter 



Nursery. 

 f Q. C. \6heterophylla. Q. L. heterophylla iZor^. (^fig. 1564.) Foliage 



very variable ; also a recent production of the Exeter Nursery. 



The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigorous branches, 

 [which take a much more upright direction than those of the British or com- 

 mon oak ; and both branches and twigs are, in every stage of the tree's growth, 

 wholly free from the tortuous character of those of that species. The trunk 

 is also straighter ; but the branches, at their junction with it, being remark- 

 iable for an unusual degree of expansion, the trunks of middle-aged trees, as 

 lit is observed in the Dictionnaire des Eaux ct Forets, often appear gibbous. 

 The bark is comparatively smooth and dark when young, but corky as it grows 

 pld ; and it is reckoned less liable to chap and crack than that of the common 

 .3ak. Tiie leaves are of a beautiful bright shining green, somewhat glaucous or 

 noary beneath ; and they vary so exceedingly in size and shape in different 

 rees raised from seed, that almost every individual, if described from the 

 "eaves alone, might be constituted a distinct species : they have short foot- 

 'italks, and are most readily distinguished from those of oaks of every other 

 jection by their small buds, and the numerous linear persistent stipules which 

 (jroceed from them. The acorns are sessile, or on very short footstalks ; and 

 !hey are easily known by the bristly or mossy clothing of their cups. They 

 ^re remarkably bitter and austere ; a circumstance noticed by Phny. The 



crispa. 



