AMENTIFERZ. 145 
SPECIES I-QUERCUS ROBOUR. Lim. 
Prarrs MCCLXXXVIN. MCCLXXXIX. 
Leaves deciduous, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-elliptical, sinuated, 
with blunt lobes extending not more than half-way down to the mid- 
rib. Fruit solitary or aggregated on axillary stalks. Cupule } to } 
the length of the ripe fruit, with closely imbricated deltoid or trian- 
- gular-ovate adpressed scales destitute of subulate points. Leaves 
glabrous when old, somewhat shining, pubescent beneath when 
young. 
Sus-Srecrs L—Quercus pedunculata. Willd. 
Prars MCCLXXXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCXLVIII. Fig. 1313. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2532. 
Q. robur, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1342. Leight. Fl. Shrop. p. 473. Orep. Man. Fl. de 
Belg. ed. ii. p. 267. 
Leaves very shortly stalked, irregularly sinuate-pinnatifid; lobes 
commonly divided half-way down to the midrib, and extending to the 
apex, the sinus between them forming an acute angle, though generally 
rounded off at the bottom. Fruit peduncle longer than the acorn, and 
much longer than the petiole. 
In woods, copses, hedgerows, &c. Common, and generally distri- 
buted, though doubtless planted in many of its stations. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Tree. Spring. 
A tree attaining a great size, with widely spreading branches and 
erey fissured bark, Leaves 3 to 6 inches long, with very short 
petioles; lamina commonly unequal and more or less notched at the 
base, but sometimes decurrent upon the petiole, firm, somewhat 
leathery, shining and glabrous above when full-grown, paler beneath, 
where it is often downy when young, with 4 to 6 large obtuse lobes 
on each side, pointing towards the apex of the leaf. Flowers appearing 
with the young leaves, on shoots produced from buds formed on 
the wood of the previous year, and surrounded by brown scarious 
bracts; male catkins long, pendulous, 2 or 3 together, 1 to 3 inches 
long, with numerous flowers in fascicles, which are distant, especially 
towards the base of the catkin. Fruit peduncle 1 to 4 inches long, 
with a fruit at the apex, and generally 1 or 2 others between that 
and the base; these are sometimes remote, sometimes approximate. 
Cupule hemispherical, sessile upon the peduncle, rather smooth. 
Acorn } to 1} inch long, yellowish-green until it is fully ripe, when 
it becomes brownish-olive. 
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