386 DR. HOOKER ON THREE OAKS OF PALESTINE. 



liie Royal Gardens. Loudon states that a gall similar to that of Q. iiifectoria, but more 

 angular, is found on Q. yEgilops : 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. Fersica 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-GO 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 tlie northern mountain ranges, are — 



1. QuERCUS Cerkis, Linn. Sp. PL 1415 ; WiUd. Sp. PI. iv. 454. 



Q. Cerris var. Caramanica, Kotschy, Herb. It. Cilic. No. 80 ! & 385 ! — Var. Cilicia, 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. at 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. Hcdijihloeos of Asia Minor ; Q. Pseudocerris of Mount Casius in North 

 Syria, and the Valley of the Kedisha above Tripoli. 



2. QuERCUS TozA, Bosc, Journ. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 155, t. 32. f. 3, fid. DC. Flor. 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. suhalpina from the same locality. His Ehrenbergii (vid. sub ^gilops) may be 

 referable here. Q. Toza is a native of the Pyrenees and South of Prance also. 



3. QuERCTJs CASTANE^EOLiA, C. A. Meyer in Eichwald Caucasus, fasc. ii. p. 9, t. 1 ; 

 Jaub. et Spach, lUust. t. 54. 



? Q. squarrosa, Kotschy, Herb. It. Syriac. No. 100 ! 



? Q. Look, Kotschy, /. c. 172. 



? Q. carpinea, Kotschy, /. c. No. 98 ! 



This handsome species (the true ^gilops of linnajus, 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. ^gilops. 



4. QuERCUS LiBANi, Oliv. fid. Kotschy, I. c. t. 5 ; Herb. It. Cilic. No. 380 ! et var. foliis 

 obscurioribus, I. c. 384 ! 



A noble species, allied to Q. castanecefolia, 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. 



