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fruit sessile, oblong. In other respects, as to general form 

 and magnitude, it closely resembles the common Oak, 

 indeed so much so, that, of the numerous trees recorded 

 in various parts of 

 Britain, for their 

 enormous dimensi- 

 ons, age, and other 

 peculiarities, the va- 

 riety or species to 

 which they belong, 

 has, in many cases, 

 never been mention- 

 ed or ascertained. 

 According to some 

 writers, the Quer. 

 sessiUJlora, is said 

 to have a more lofty and pyramidal growth than the Quer. 

 pedunculate: ; but this, judging from the various specimens 

 we have examined, the characteristic drawings of Mr. 

 Strutt, and the excellent outlines 

 of both kinds figured in the " Ar- 

 boretum Britannicum," does not 

 appear a character upon which 

 much dependance can be placed. 

 Loudon states his belief that no 

 important or constant difference 

 exists between the mode of growth of the two kinds, 

 " because," he observes, " we have found individuals of 

 the one species, as pyramidal, fastigiate, or orbicular, as 

 we have found any of the other; 1 ' and the Bev. W. T. 

 Bree, who writes in the " Gardener's Magazine"* upon 

 the Quer. sessiUJlora and its varieties, remarks, that there 



* " Gardener's Magazine," vol. xii. p. 571. 



