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= fieulty of no ordinary characte r. But oporog ieni ‘gy? extent to which black- raphe oer the forest, we went through a considerable portion of it 
bit i raet sgi aooo a tof of all entire s to | ev e dead with | where the Oaks grow, in our way to Coleford. I was 
ith 
it. and we | more sc a if inds is almost bey cat pecans on. | at once struck with the hills ei valleys as as th 
be sacrificed wit out an, 3 te arpia Indeed many a bottle of fluid is sold for ketchup which | eye could reach being covered with ti E k 
hat possibility there has scarcely a particle of true aroom in its compo- | trees, none of ega gt large, but 
s ; 
lar di as 
i however l Li 
is now suggested i T ed distri > | salt and spice with which it is preserved, or the in- grow into timber, which. has been the case, Their 
R Aapon ent in the ete Lenape yd cipient decor pace a of the kinds which are used. A 
3 ae bites eee fale ketchup is some quantities, it oft Tkad Oal +} 
wile caer tho public a very important service PY ji is strange that ame ses of poisoning or its use are | bleau, vo T immediately Peeka ox ï per 
how he has proceeded. ver sported, but the probability is that accidents do| Acorns. I found most of the trees liad some few left on 
explaining mes happen, but are referred to some pre ogy 2 them, and all that I examined were the short-stalked 
arenen of the brass or copper vessel in which t ¢ variety or Q. sessiliflora, My friend, an inhabitant of 
E understcni that at a late see of Pre vinds have been boiled with which the condiment is | Mormouth, said that the portion of the forest 
tees of the British Museum, it was 
Tru mie evoted. to Oak culture for ‘the nav, and which looked 
8 ater to 7 that the Natural Hi istory Collections Authoriti ies with one consent, whether at home or rather Ii 4 a forest, extended 
be removed to Fensi ington Gor abroad, unite in the qualified praise of innocence as over 11, 000, acres. wad te ‘cama to me to range 
belonging to this <page And unless ra consent, 100 y in ane , and all with clear 
no species should e r be regar rde d, as positively safe, | boles md a ae the charnctebinties of the Sessile 
me ages PE TH. since climate ma bars in Losi o Oak. | s the more e struc „with their appearance 
TUS, Fr.—Fungiareproverbiallycrea- | quality, Puccinelli speaks of this species as bei rom livi , where a tree of this 
peoo of quick rer a em as sae ecay. This spplies great request about Via Reggio and Lucca, but Vitta- variety 3 is seldom or n er fo ar and where even com- 
however only to a portion of the plants s included under | dini does not even name it, nor do we find any notice of it | paratively ree trees of Quercus pedunculata (the 
the general name, for aay attain considerable firm- | in the article "on Fungi, in the Dizionario Classico di | long- ‘stalked Pa very commence to throw out at 
ness, and even resemb e cork or wood in texture, | en emana a at Venice in 1834, nearly right then from the trunk their long, 
hile their duration is as variable = ne A The pecies must be distinguished carefully from ! crooked, picturesque branches. In the neighbourhood 
Mushroom tribe is however amon, s in the hedgerows 
ge and near Raglan Castle I found 
bitius, which is characterised xceed several hybrids, eh siey a 
ng rapidity with which its species melt more- diffase than 
away into an uid mass. a short-stalked, y aes a Poir 
not indeed so evanescent as the s0 A a ogee on the 
ich n cast upon the sand cor on stalks 
Aco e grow 
slightly leg tened, Teading me 
to think they w re hybr rids, 
k 
supply of the navy; but I 
do not remember ever to have read that the Oaks 
0 
not to be found, and I re ber when rambling in the 
large woods near Ryde, Ine 0 of Wight, some few years 
ago, I could never find a tree of this very favourite Oak. 
that it is s foai in the New Forest 
as “ Durmast Oaks,” and offered for sale by the nursery- 
men a; Lymington. 
ak woods in Saxony are thickly peopled with 
this Xing, and grand trees they are. I saw a large 
composition is extremely sm mall. and soon 
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substance EE yi which will ae 
vent its getting mouldy, such as 
pices, or a sal quantity of 
coria sublim. 
mei 
utiful is our present he most interesting variety of this white Oak 
subject, which occurs on roadsides Quercus pannoni hich makes stout annual ts 
r walls or upor r: ] i e’s finger, and has remarkably 
or in rich pastures, attracting large and deeply indented leaves which remain on the 
notice by its unusual form and young trees all the winte t gral dily on the 
l As — ileus common ng and bids fair to prove one 
he pil 
eylindrical 
but tvery j Stue, t then bell. hopes 
na finely 
silk and in s broken up 
T distinct Sar a less reflected scal 
wi 
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Q. meas is not known to us. We do not fna ® it in 
any of the systematic works to which we hay 
But z appears undistinguishable from an Oak gathered 
b r. Bentham in the forest of Belgrade near 
rufous especial ee by Mr. Rivers is of very RAA A magnitude. 
sionally on a 
pee i talk a EL Sha orrespondence. 
“ey formed either above or at the ‘ae wghting Fires at the top instead of the bottom.—I 
h a narrow ring, which is in the have just read your article on London DIe Horti 
bel oveable, in the latter culture. Will you ema me m- Pean the movement 
fixed ; within it is ho but y reverting to epee for” materially 
with the most tiat coe dreads reducing smoke, by the ‘gling o of TR fires on the 
which often adhere together and form 
nis prac- 
a delicate string, occupying the centre tice, I believe, was not unkno wi pE rs since, in 
of the cavity. e gills are narrow, sick chambers, where a fire that tai burn all n ignt 
ascending, and free, very close together without attention was sige ) 
and adhering to each oth ore it was first adv pasted for pain a 
practice by the af newspaper. 
Soten, the isea l amount of 
rrespondence page Mer into: 
stuffed with a delicate web; the kel lls a 
Neng 
rple, n, or 
bent tifal productions are 
bes but the creatures of a ig ‘on ee Corres Costaros. R 
when ee home, and placed o; tural s 
fe hed in ibe collecting box ie sink E ck fas picaceus, w hich feeds at times on the most | 
aid, Ms ultimately acquire a very disagreable smell. | disgusting food and Cirma its bad habits by its 
sionally aa F pe remely abundant, so abominable smell. A little care however will prevent 
that it becomes A gation whether they can be put to | mistakes. There is no ring; the nat is hollow, not 
eed useful purposes, od ng hered young, poles Bord ih Bron Wi and 
may 
first shade "P , th ms 
one eaten wit safety, but, as rosa Sate cs posed, 
ey do not afford a very substan tial dish ; if older but | moreov 
ore ‘or’ 
di 
ir yh - QUERCU S SESSILIFLORA Whack it been 
M uten however mixed dealers with the true os Was not aware Footie hts the vast wanna? of diseases, that t Ea chintxtuie “OF dite 
ush especially in san sigs that is| this variety of Oak the Forest of Dean. J) columns deod it Ba mha te ake 
Scarce, and in such circu fthe result is not ae be visiting a ehia irma in Monmouth last -x Ara = — i Sette wa experience: ; 
ite so good, there is lest leant aot no fear of any doari October, and in taking a drive to view the scenery of | VA siron y i ues 
