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those of P. alba. Woods, etc. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 1909.) 

 T. in. iv. 



3. "P. nigra (black P.) In moist places and by sides of 

 rivers ; not truly indigenous. A tall tree, growing in a pyrami- 

 dal form. Leaves nearly triangular, tapering to a point, serrate ; 

 catkins long, loose, and drooping ; stamens more numerous than 

 in the other species, varying from 8 to 30. Very frequent. 

 (E. B. t. 1910.) T. m. 



ORD. LXXXVI. CUPULIFERuEJ. 



FAGUS. BEECH. 



P. sylvatica (common Beech.) -In woods and plantations. 

 Male and female flowers on the same tree. A large and beautiful 

 tree, with smooth round trunk and thickly- clustered branches. 

 Leaves on short stalks, ovate, obscurely toothed with fine hairs 

 on the edges. Male flowers in a roundish catkin of about a 

 dozen flowers ; female catkins globular, with 2 or 3 sessile 

 flowers in their centres. Nuts 2 or 3, contained in a hard spiny 

 involucre. Park Hill wood. Ansti's Cove lane. Side of the 

 Newton road, near Milber Down. Holy Street, near Chagford, 

 very fine examples. (E. B. t. 1846.) T. in. IT. 



CASTANEA. CHESTNUT. 



C. vulgaris (Spanish Chestnut.) In woods, etc. A stately 

 and magnificent tree, but by most botanists not considered a na- 

 tive. Height from 50 to 80 feet. Branches wide and spreading ; 

 leaves large and shining, oblong-lanceolate, sharply serrate. 

 Barren flowers in long, pendulous, interrupted spikes ; fertile 

 flowers from 1 to 3, in a 4-lobed involucre ; nuts 1 or 2 in the 

 greatly enlarged calyx, which is invested with tangled and com- 

 plicated prickles. In woods and plantations about Torquay. 

 Churston Ferrers, by the roadside ; a very large tree. (Fagus 

 Castanea, E. B. t. 886.) T. v. 



QUERCUS. OAK. 



Q. Robur (common British Oak.) In woods and hedges. A 

 bold and stately tree, attaining to the greatest age of any of our 



