384 DR. HOOKER ON THREE OAKS OF PALESTINE. 



Q. Syriaca, Kotscliy, /. c. t. i. 



? Q. brachyphylla, Kotschy, /. c. t. ix. 



? Q. hrjpolmca, Kotschy, Herb. It. Syriac. No. 99 ! 

 Hab. In locis petrosis Syria; alt. 1500-5000 ped., a Libano ! ad Carmel ! Fl. vere ; fr. October. 

 Dist. Grsecia, Bosnia ! Byzantium ! Asia minor ! 



Q. infectoria was established by Olivier on plants found in Asia Minor. 



Q. Boissieri originated in specimens brought from Zcbdany, in the Antilebanon, by 

 Boissier ; Q. inermis, founded on Lebanon specimens gathered by Ehrenberg, is also applied 

 by Kotschy to others from the Valley of the Kedisha (Cedars). Q. Ffceffingeri is applied 

 both to SjTian and Cilician specimens by Kotschy ; polycarpos, leptocarpos, and Tcmricola, 

 all to Taurus specimens by Kotschy. Of Q. Syriaca I have no example ; but Kotschy's 

 splendid plate serves to identify it absolutely with infectoria, as does the habitat. Of 

 Q. bracliypliylla also I have no specimens ; it is a Taurus plant, also well illustrated by 

 Kotschy. Of Q. hypoleuca I have only one specimen, without flower or fruit, Avhich 

 exactly resembles a young shoot of infectoria ; it was collected at Zebdany in the 

 Antilebanon. 



Qiierciis infectoria was met with by us in great abundance on the east slopes of Leba- 

 non, again on the rocky hills of Galilee south of Safed, and, lastly, on the summit of 

 Carmel. In all these localities it occurred as a small tree 15-20 feet high, or, more often, 

 as a bush sparingly branched, with a rather slender rugged trunk, and grey deciduous 

 foliage white on the under surface ; it was rendered very conspicuous by the abundance 

 of those spherical galls of a deep red-brown colour and shining viscid surface which are 

 figured in the 17th volume of our Transactions (plate 22). 



Another gall, of smaller size, paler colour, softer texture, precisely similar to the gall of 

 Q. Cerris, figured by Loudon and presenting several angular conical protuberances, was 

 sparingly found by us in Syria, and, as we believed, on this same tree ; but we had no 

 opportunity of identifying the specimen with fruiting ones. Neither of these galls is 

 collected in Syria, as far as we could hear : the larger and commoner is probably not 

 different from the Aleppo gall, though it may be inferior in quality. The acorns are of a 

 singularly elegant form and bright amber-colour. It is very rare in English nurseries : 

 Loudon states that he had (1838) never seen it, and knew of no living specimen near 

 London, though, according to catalogues, it was introduced in 1822. Some of those I 

 brought home in damp earth are now growing in the Royal Gardens. 



The Quercus infectoria is common throughout Asia Minor. Mr. Balansa showed us 

 trees of it near Smyrna, and informed us that it was extremely variable in foliage and 

 pubescence. Its western limit is apparently Bosnia, and its eastern the confines of Persia ; 

 to the north it attains the latitude of Constantinople, and its southern limit is probably 

 the hills of Samaria. 



3. QuEECUS iEGiLOPS, Linn. Sp. PL 1414 ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 448 ; Tchihatcheff", As 

 Min. Bot. vol. ii. p. 470, t. xli. and xlii. 



Q. Pyrami, Kotschy, Eich. Europ. u. Orient, t. 3 ; Herb. It. Cilic. No. 395 ! 



Q. macrolepis, Kotschy, I. c. t. Ifi, et Herb. No. .S09, a! 



Q. Ungeri, Kotschy, /. c. t. 13, et Herb. It. Cilic. No. 390 ! Tchihatcheff, I. c. p. 473. 



