GENERA JVGLANS, FRAXINUS, &C. 25I 



that are common in the neighbourhood of Lancaster. 

 Marshall has the following divisions. 



A. White Oaks. 



1. Quercm alba. This is very common, and has 

 been often figured. 



I have only to add, that the scales at the cup of 

 the acorn are round, and that the cup has a foot- 

 Stalk half an inch long.* 



1. £>ver -cits alba minor-, grows generally upon 

 hills, and, when in richer soil, approaches very 

 near to the original species. Wangenheim de- 

 scribes it under the name of Quercus stellati. 

 Bart ram in his journal mentions it as C^lobata. 



nently axillary, of those that require two years to arrive at maturity, it 

 is only so during the first year, as in the second it is left naked by the 

 leaves falling off; though some of these last are, from the concomitant 

 permanency of their leaves, also permanently axillary, as Quercus cocci- 

 fera L. and Q^virens Hort. Kew.— - The number of the species with their 

 varieties described in this work is twenty To those species of the 

 above paper, as could clearly be trareJ, we have subjoined their spe- 

 cific character given by Mich\ux ; referring the reader for their 

 more minute investigation to the work itself. T. 



* ghiercus alia : foliis oblongis sinuatis ghbris, junioribus subtus to- 

 mentosis, lobis lanccolatis obtusis indlvisis. 



Thii is the Linr.ean species, which also varies, the divisions of the 

 leaves being sometimes linear, sometimes lanceolate. 



