iaa2 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



QUERCUS GLABRA 



Quercus glabra, Thunberg, Fi./ap. x7S i^lH); Franchet et Savatier, Enun,. M. Jap. I 447 (1875); 



Masters, in Gard Chron. xiv. 784, fig- ^53 (1880). t j? j? , t ^ 



Pasania glabra. Oersted, m Kjoeb. Vidensk. MeM, 1866, p 81 ; Shirasawa /..«. Ess. Forest. Japan, 



text 61, t. 32, figs. 14-24 (1900); Schneider, Laubhohkunde, 1. 160, fig. 95 (1904). 



A small tree with smooth bark. Young branches glabrous. Leaves (Plate 

 338, Fig. 50) coriaceous, persistent for two or three years, 4 to 5 in. long, r to \\ 

 in. broad, lanceolate or elliptical, tapering at the base and prolonged as a narrow 

 wing on each side of the petiole; apex acute or contracted into a short acumen, 

 rounded at the tip ; margin entire, revolute ; upper surface shining, glabrescent ; 

 lower surface pale, glabrous, with numerous shining minute dots; lateral nerves 

 about ten pairs, dividing and looping before reaching the margin ; petiole glabrous, 

 1 to f in. long. 



Fruit (section Pasania) ripening in the second year, grouped in threes and 

 numerous, but only a few developing, on an erect spike about 4 in. long ; acorn 

 ovoid, about an inch long, pointed, glabrous, surrounded at the base by a shallow 

 cupule, \ in. in diameter, covered with appressed grey tomentose ovate acuminate 

 scales. 



Q. glabra is a native of Japan, and was introduced^ into cultivation in 

 England in 1842, when plants were raised in the Tooting and Epsom Nurseries. 

 We have not been able to separate as distinct var. latifolia * introduced by Maries 

 in 1877. This species does not appear to be quite so hardy as Q. acuta and 

 remains a large bush, often seen in gardens in the south and west of England, and 

 in Ireland, where it ripens fruit.' There are specimens in the oak collection at 

 K^^- (A. H.) 



QUERCUS CUSPIDATA 



Quercus «.x//</«/«, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 176 (1784); Franchet et Savatier, E„um PI. Jap i ..n 

 (1875); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xii. .33, f. 38 (,879); Skan, in Jour n. Linn. Soc. iBot'\ ^, 

 510(1899). ^ •' 



Pasania cuspidata, Oersted, in Kjoeb. Vide,uk. Medd., 1866, p. 81 ; Shirasawa. Icon. Ess Forest Tat>on. 

 text 62, t. 34, figs. i-,3 (1900); Schneider, Laubhohkunde, i. 160 (1904). 



A large tree. Bark smooth on young stems, deeply fissured on old trunks 

 Young branchlets glabrescent. Leaves (Plate 338. Fig. 51) coriaceous, per^ 

 sistent two or three years, 2 to 3 in. long, f to i in. broad, elliptical ; base tapering 



