Quercus 1273 



acorns in good seasons, from which I have raised seedlings, and these, though they 

 grow slowly, seem perfectly hardy. It is supposed to have been planted about 1843. 



A smaller tree, growing beside this, is probably the Algerian form, and 

 measures 47 ft. by 3 ft. i in. This is perhaps of the same origin as a very thriving 

 narrow pyramidal tree^ in the oak collection, measuring 34 ft. by 3 ft., which was 

 raised from acorns sent by Playfair from Algeria in 1869. 



Another tree at Beauport, near Grinsted's Cottage, is about 35 ft. by 4 ft. 

 9 in. and has a short bole with rather corky bark, and a very spreading 



crown. 



Henry was informed in Algeria that the wood of this species is similar in its 

 properties to that of Q. Cerris, as it has an abundant sapwood and fails in dura- 

 bility. It is hard, heavy, easy to rive, but difficult to work, and is rejected by the 

 railway companies who have been urged in vain by the forestry department of Algeria 

 to use it for sleepers. Up to the present time it has been mainly used for firewood. 



(H. J. E.) 



QUERCUS MACEDONICA 



Quercus macedonica, A. de Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 50 (1864). 



Quercus Grisebachii, Kotschy, Eichen, 3 (1862) (name only); Baldacci, Riv. Coll. Bot. Alb. 



72 (1892). 

 Quercus ^gtlops, Grisebach, Spictl. Fl. Rum. 333, excl. syn. (1844) (not Linnaeus). 

 Quercus ostryafoUa, Borbas, in Erdesz. Lap. xxvi. 932 (1887). 



A small tree or large shrub. Young branchlets with a minute scattered 

 pubescence. Buds ovoid, \ in. long, with glabrous ciliate scales. Leaves 

 (Plate 337, Fig. 41) deciduous late in the season, coriaceous, about 2\ in. 

 long and i in. broad, ovate - lanceolate, auricled at the broad base, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, with nine to twelve pairs of lateral nerves each ending in a 

 short mucronate tooth ; margin wrinkled, with the teeth inflexed ; upper surface dark 

 green, with minute deciduous scattered brown pubescence ; lower surface paler, 

 with a similar pubescence ; petiole \ in. long, minutely pubescent. 



Fruit ripening in the second year, solitary, or two to three together, on a 

 very short stout pubescent peduncle ; acorn pubescent at the tip, enclosed in 

 the lower half in a hemispherical cupule, about i in. in diameter with pubescent 

 scales, the lowest ovate and appressed; the middle scales linear, hooked, and 

 recurved ; the uppermost narrow, erect, or incurved. 



This species was discovered by Grisebach in Macedonia, in the mountains 

 near Vodena, and occurs in Epirus, Albania, Montenegro, southern Herzegovina, 

 and in south-eastern Italy on the coast between Bari and Gallipoli.^ 



In Herzegovina Mt is a rare tree, growing in mixture with Q. Cerris and 

 Q. conferta, in the Dobrava forest near Stolac and in a few other localities. Farther 



1 It measured 24 ft. by 2 ft. in 1897. ^ Schneider, Laubhohkunde, i. 180 (1904). 



3 Cf. Beck, Veg. illyr. Land, 211 (1901). 

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