LXX. CORYLACE^: QUE RCUS. 



887 



1650. Q. virens. 



parts of the Southern States. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced in 1739. 



Flowers and fruit rarely produced in England. 



The leaves are oval, corianeous, of a dark green above, and whitish beneath : 

 thev persist during several years, but are partially renewed every spring. On 

 old" trees, growing wild in the forests, they are always entire, as shown in fig. 

 1631. ; but, on seedlings of 2 or 3 years old, they are very distinctly toothed, 

 as in Ji'^. 1632. On trees growing in cool soils, or reared in plantations, they 



1632. Q. -rirens. 



are one half larger than those on the trees usually found in a wild state, and 

 a' e often denticulated even on old trees. The acorns are of an elongated oval 

 form, nearly black, and are contained in greyish pedunculated cups. In Bri- 

 tish gardens, this tree is seldom found higher than a large shrub, it requiring 

 rather a wanner climate to attain a timber-like size. 



? i 38. Q. myrtifo'lia Willd, No. 4., N. DuHam.l. p. 131. 



Leaves coriaceous, oblong, entire, smooth, acute at each end. Carolina. See 

 Jig. 2103. m p. 1 1 10. It is described in our first edition, p. 1920. 



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