3S(J DR. HOOKER ON THREE OAKS OF PALESTINE. 
the Royal Gardens. Loudon states that a gall similar to that of Q. infectoria, but more 
angular, is found on Q. JEgilops : this was not observed in Syria. 
The Vallonea Oak, though abundant in Asia Minor, &c, is almost limited in its range 
to the countries east of the Adriatic and west of Persia, except it should prove that 
Q. Persica is a form of it, which to me appears quite possible. Nyman gives Spain as 
a habitat. It is rare in British gardens, though plants 50-60 feet high exist. 
It may be well to mention here what I know of the other Oaks said to inhabit Syria. 
These, which are all confined to the northern mountain ranges, are 
1. Queiicus Cekris, Linn. Sp. PL 1415 ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 454. 
Q. Cerris var. Caramanica, Kotschy, Herb. It. Cilic. No. 80 ! & 385 ! — Var. Cihcia, Herb. It. 
Cil. No. 386 ! 
Q. crinita, Bosc, Mem. Chen. p. 19, fid. DC. Flor. Franc, vi. p. 354. 
Q. Austriaca, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 454 ; Kotschy, Eich. Europ. u. Orient. 20. 
Q. Haliphloeos, Juss., Lamk. ! fid. Herb. Benth. 
Q. Pseudocerris, Boiss. et Reut. ! Kotschy, Herb. It. Syr. No. 328 ! 
The original Q. Cerris is a native of Spain, Prance, Italy, Austria, Greece, and Asia 
Minor, and Q. Haliphloeos of Asia Minor ; Q. Pseudocerris of Mount Casius in North 
Syria, and the Valley of the Kedisha above Tripoli. 
2. Queiicus Toza, Bosc, Journ. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 155, t. 32. f. 3, fid. DC. Plor. Pranc. 
vol. vi. p. 352 ; Kotschy, Eichen Europ. und Orient, t. xxii. 
Q. subalpina, Kotschy ! Herb. It. Syriac. No. 335. 
Q. Pyrenaica, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 451. 
Q. Tauzin, Persoon, Kotschy, Herb. It. Syriac. No. 336 ! 
Kotschy gives Q. Toza (Tauzin, Pers.) as a native of the Kedisha Valley ; and his spe- 
cimens appear in no way different from South European ones ; they do not differ from 
his Q. subalpina from the same locality. His Ehrenbergii (vid. sub JEgilops) may be 
referable here. Q. Toza is a native of the Pyrenees and South of Prance also. 
3. Quercus castanejsfolia, C. A. Meyer in Eichwald Caucasus, fasc. ii. p. 9, t. 1 ; 
-Jaub. et Spach, Illust. t. 54. 
? Q. squarrosa, Kotschy, Herb, It. Syriac. No. 100 ! 
? Q. Look, Kotschy, I c. 172. 
? Q. carpinea, Kotschy, J. c. No. 98 ! 
This handsome species (the true JEgilops of Linnseus, according to Grisebach) is a 
native of the regions south of the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Persia, it having been ori- 
ginally described from Mazanderan, on the south shore of the Caspian. Kotschy's Oak 
No. 98, from Zebdany in the Antilebanon, appears to be the same plant, as far as can be 
judged by leaves alone, as may also be the Q. Look aUuded to under Q. JEgilops. 
4. Quercus Libani, Oliv. fid. Kotschy, I. c. t. 5 ; Herb. It. Cilic. No. 380 ! et var. foUis 
obscurioribus, /. c. 384 ! 
A noble species, allied to Q. cattanecefolia, if not a mere form of it. It is a native of 
Cilicia, and Kurdistan according to Kotschy, but was originally discovered in the Lebanon 
by Olivier, who sent specimens to Desfontaines 
