Quercus 1 2,5 i 



deep sandy soil, and a position well sheltered from wind by other trees. As a rule 

 it is easily recognised by the number of small, rather pendulous branches, which it 

 throws out among the larger ones, and by its upright habit. It grows fast on good 

 soil, and Loudon says that in Loddiges' nursery in 1837 he saw some which at 

 seven years from the acorn were 15 ft. high. It rarely ripens fruit in England, 

 but I raised some plants from acorns grown at Kew in 1901, which I believe to be 

 of this species, and which are growing well at Colesborne. 



The largest trees that we know of are in Windsor Park, near China Island, 

 one of which in 1910 was 97 ft. by 10 ft. 11 in, (Plate 315). Not far off, there is 

 another tree that has been carefully measured by Mr. Squires, who finds it to be 

 113 ft. by lOg- ft. Another in the Rhododendron Drive was 100 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. 

 in 1909. At Kew there is a tree at the south end of the Temperate House, 

 which has had its top broken some years ago, and now measures 57 ft. by 10 ft. 

 At Arley Castle there are two trees, of which the finest (No. 189 in Mr. Wood- 

 ward's catalogue) was 80 ft. by 6 ft. 4 in. in 1905. One at Bayfordbury, planted 

 in 1840, was 71 ft. by 6 ft. 8 in. in the same year. 



At Canford Manor there is a very fine tree 80 ft. by 8 ft. in 1906; at Oakly 

 Park, Ludlow, another, 75 ft. by 8 ft. in 1908 ; at Milford House, Godalming, a well- 

 shaped tree 84 ft. by 7 ft. 9 in. in 1909 ; and at Deepdene, Surrey, Henry measured 

 a tree, which was perfectly sound, 70 ft. by 9 ft. 10 in. in 1905. 



In Scotland and Ireland we know of no trees of any size. (H. J. E.) 



QUERCUS SCHNECKII 



Quenus Schneckii, Britton, Manual, 333 (1901). 



Quercus texana, Sargent, Garden and Forest, vii. 514, ff. 81, 82 (1894), Silva N. Amer. viii. 129, 

 t. 411 (189s), and Trees N. Amer. 235 (1905) (not Buckley).^ 



A tree, the tallest^ of the American oaks, attaining 180 ft. in height, and 8 ft. in 

 diameter above the much enlarged and buttressed base. It is with difficulty dis- 

 tinguishable in the absence of fruit from Q. palustris, though the leaves^ (Plate 334, 

 Fig. 15) are broader in proportion to their length than in that species, but have the 

 same conspicuous axil-tufts, while the buds and branchlets are identical. 



Fruit, ripening in the second year, stalked ; acorn ovoid, about an inch long, 

 pubescent ; cupule hemispherical, | in. in diameter, covered with closely appressed 

 tomentose scales. 



* According to Small, Q. texana, Buckley, in Proc. Phil. Acad., i860, p. 444, is a small tree or shrub, occurring in dry 

 and rocky places in Texas, and distinct from Q. texana, Sargent, which is now correctly named Q. Schneckii, Britton. 



' Ridgway says in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. 83, that in the bottoms of southern Illinois, trees straight as an arrow 5 or 

 even 6 ft. in diameter above the spurs, and 50 to more than 70 ft. clear, were formerly not at all rare, but most of them had 

 even then been cut for clapboards or barrel staves. The largest that he had measured was 23 ft. in girth round the top of the 

 stump, with a trunk 76 ft. long and 3 ft. in diameter at the top. At 120 ft. from the ground the limbs were more than a 

 foot in thickness. Assuming the taper of this tree to have been regular, the log would have contained about 1200 cubic ft. 

 by quarter girth measure. Ridgway speaks of these trees as Q. rubra ; but Sargent considers them to be his Q. texana, referred 

 now to Q. Schneckii. — (H. J. E.) 



3 Figured by us from excellent fruiting specimens, collected by Elwes on Mt. Carmel, Illinois. 



