LXX. CORYLA'CEE: QUERCUS. R53 
“1548. Q. 8. australis. 
¥ 3. Q. pyrena ica Willd. The Pyrenean Oak. 
Identification. Willd.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 179.; Rees’s Cycl., No. 75. 
Synonymes. Q. Tatixin Pers.; Q. nigra Thore Chlor.; Q. Tosa Bosc; Q. stolonifera Lapeyr.; 
Q. tomentdsa Dec. ; Chéne noir, Secondat ; Chéne-tauzin, Fr. 
Engravings. Secondat, Mém. du Chéne, t. 2. and t. 5.; N. Du Ham., 7. t. 56. ; and our fig. 1549. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong, pinnatifid ; stalked ; downy beneath ; some- 
what heart-shaped and unequal at the base ; lobes obtuse, slightly toothed. 
Fruit stalked. (Willd.) A low tree, technically deciduous, but retaining 
its withered leaves throughout the winter, and till they are pushed off by 
the expanding buds in the following summer. Pyrenees. Height 20 ft. to 
30 ft. Introduced in 182%. Flowers greenish white ; May and June. 
Readily known, from its infancy upwards, from 
every other oak, in spring, by the dense covering of 
woolly down that is spread over its young leaves, a 
which, on their first appearance (in the climate of 
London, three weeks later than those of the com- 
mon oak), are of a reddish tinge. The leaves are 
retained during the wirter, when they appear curled 
up, and at the extremities of the shoots remind one 
of the carved work in wood of the sculptor Gibbons, 
The roots run near the surface, and throw up nu- 
merous suckers. The wood, which weighs 60 lb. per 
cubic foot, is of great hardness, toughness, and dura- 
bility, but apt to warp; the bark furnishes the best 
of all tan. It is one of the most ornamental of 
oaks, and being of small stature it ought to find a 1549, Q. pyrenaica. 
place in every collection, instead of which it is com- 
paratively rare in England. Several varieties are mentioned in the New 
DuHamel. 
* 4, Q. E’scutus L. The Esculus, or Italian, Oak. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. P)., 1414. ; N. Du Ham.,7. p.176.; Rees’s Cycl., No. 70. 
Synonymes. Phagus E’sculus, mas et feem., Dalech. Hist. 5.; Chene grec, Fr. 
Derivation. From esca, food. The Esculus of the classics is by some taken for the beech tree ; 
but the Q. Z’sculus of Linnzus is now believed to be the Phagos of Theophrastus, which he ex- 
-pressly says is a kind of oak. . ' F a 
Engravings. The plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., lat edit., vol. vii. ; and our Jig. 1550. 
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