MONOECIA-POLYANDRIA. Quercus. 149 



Engl. Bot. V. 19. t. 1342. Hook. Scot. 373. fVoodv. t. 126. Huds. 



42\, ex.. Mart. Rust. t. 10 ; the stalked variety. 

 Q. pedunculata. fVilkl Sp. PL v. 4. 450. Baumz.27S. Ait. H. 



Kew. ed. 2. V. 5. 294. Ehrh.Jrb.77. Pl.Of.l68. 

 Q. foemina. With. 387. Fl. Dan. t. 1 180. 

 Q. n. 1626, a, major. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 296. 

 Q. latifolia. Raii Sijn. 440. 



Q. vulgaris. Ger. Em. 1339, 1340./,/. Lob. lev. 2. 164, 155./,/. 

 Q. Hemeris. Dalech. Hist. 4. f. 

 Q. cum longo pediculo. Bauh. Pin. 420. Duhum. Arb. v. 2. 202. 



t.47. 

 Quercus. Trag. Hist. \ 102. f. Fuchs. Hist. 229. f. Zc. 130./ 



Matth. Valgr.v. 1. 184./ Camer.Epit. 111./ Tabern.Kreuterb. 



1374./ 

 Oak Tree. Hunt. Evel. Sylv. 69./ 



In woods and hedges every where. In mountainous situations of 

 more humble stature. 



Tree. April. 



A large, umbrageous, very handsome tree, with round, smooth, 

 leafy, more or less wavy, branches. Leaves deciduous, alternate, 

 on short stalks, smooth, bright green, unequally cut into paral- 

 lel, bluntish, entire, marginal lobes, with rather acute sinuses, 

 and furnished with a .single mid-rib, sending off veins into the 

 lobes. Barren^, in numerous, pendulous, stalked, yellowish, 

 downy, deciduous catkins, 2 inches long, from lateral scaly buds. 

 Fertile on axillary simple stalks, few, scattered, sessile, lateral, 

 small, greenish tinged with brown ; their outer calyx subse- 

 quently much enlarged and hardened, constituting the well- 

 known permanent cup of the smooth, finally deciduous, nut, or 

 acorn, which last is crowned by the small, chaffy, converging 

 inner calyx. 



Acorns, the noted food of hogs, are eaten likewise by pheasants ; 

 probably by turkeys in a half domesticated state. We have 

 known a considerable number taken out of the crop of one 

 pheasant, which, on being planted, grew. The value of the «/)oorf, 

 as the most useful for all the most important purposes, is well 

 known. When finely veined, it is no less ornamental. This 

 species of Oak, affording the best, strongest, and most lasting 

 timber, received from Linnaeus the classical name of Robur, ap- 

 propriated to the hardest and best kind of Oak. How Willde- 

 now came to misapply this specific appellation to the following, 

 or worst kind, and why he is countenanced in this wilful error 

 in the Hort. Kew., contrary to the knowledge of all botanists, 

 I am not able to give any satisfactory reason. Reichard seems 

 the original cause, in the misapplication of the references to Lin- 

 naeus, in his Syst, Plant, v. 4. 1 63. 



