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also of considerable flexibility. Boutcher recommends the tree for making 

 warm and lofty hedges, 40 or 30 feet hii:h, 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. (I.) Ballo'ta Desf The sweet Acorn Oak. 



Idenlification. Desf. Atl., 2. p. 3S0. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 432. ; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 157. 

 Synonytnes. ? 7Mex major Clus. Hist. 1. t. 23. ; Cliene a Glands doux, Chene Ballote, Fr. 

 Derivaliun. The term Ballhla seems to be a modification of the Spanish word bclluta, which means 



acorns generally. 

 Engravings. Our Jigs. 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 Desfontaines in the Jardin des 



Plantes, at Paris. 



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

 beneath. Bark even. Nut cylindrical, elongated. (De,<tf.) An 



evergreen tree or large bush. Bar- 

 bary, in Algiers and Morocco. 

 Height 20 or 30 feet, with a trunk 

 from 3 ft. to 6 ft. in circumference. 

 Introduced in IG96. 



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 



1612. Q. (I.) Ba((. texture; and in its acorn being of 



double the length of that of Q. /lex, and in having a mild and leis Q.[i.)Baiibia. 



agreeable taste. 



The Holly-leaved Grammont Oak. 



p. 158. 



2 30. Q. (/. B.) gramu'ntia L. 



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



Synonymes. ? 7Mex foliis rotundioribus, &c., Mann. Monsp. 140. ; Chene de Grammont, Fr. ; Wel- 

 lenbl'attrige Eiche, Ger. ; Encina duke, and Gouetta, Span. Captain S. E. Cook suggests that 

 Q. hisp&nica wouUi 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 DeCandoUe, 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 tliat was sent to us by Captain Cook ; and the plate of the tree at Purser's Cross, 

 in Arb. Brit., 1st edit. 



Spec. Char., 4'^. Leaves roundish-elliptical, nearly 

 sessile, undulated, With deep, spinous, divai'icated 



I'.U. Q. {I. B.) (,T.im6ntia. 



Q.{1. U ) Rramtintia. 



1616. Q. (/. B.) g. Codkii. 



Tf 



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

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



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