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CUPULfFER.'E 



There are three well-marked varieties : var. pedunculdta, the 

 White Oak, with sessile leaves, downy beneath when young, and 

 acorns on long stalks ; var. iHtermedia, the Durmast Oak, pro- 

 bably a hybrid, with short stalks to both leaves and acorns, leaves 

 remaining always downy beneath, and very dark green acorns ; 

 and var. sessilifiora, the Red Oak, with downy twigs, long leaf- 

 stalks, leaves smooth beneath, and nearly sessile acorns. — Woods ; 

 common. The tree is attacked by numerous insects producing 

 various galls, such as oak-apples, marblergalls, leaf-spangles, arti- 

 choke-galls, currant-galls, &c. — Fl. April, May. Perennial. 





CARtAnea SATiVA {S/'anis/i C/ilshiut). 



*6. Castane.4 (Chestnut).— Trees wit'h long slender catkins, 

 the stamiuate ones erect ; stamens 8 — 20 ; carpellnte flmvers :; to- 

 gether within a 4-lobed, very prickly capsule : stigmas 6 : ovary 

 5 — 8-chanibered ; nut large, surmounted by 6-lobed perianth, i- 

 chambered, i — 3-seeded. (Name, the Classical Latin nam; of the 

 tree.) 



I.* C. saliva (Sweet or Spanish Chestnut).— A large and hand- 

 some tree with deeply furrowed bark ; glossy, oblong-lanceolate 

 leaves with bristly serrations ; catliins 5^6 in. long. — Parks and 

 plantations ; common, but not indigenous. — Fl. May. Perennial. 



7. Fac.us (P>eech). — Trees with deciduous (or, in foreign species, 

 evergreen) haves ; stamuiale catluns globose ; stamens 8—40, with 



