856 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
beauty, sent us by John Thomas Brook, 
Esq., of Flitwick House: and jig. 
1555., copied from the figure given 
in Olivier’s Travels, is the Q. crinita 
var. ¢ Lam. Dict. i. p.'718.; Q. Tour- 
nefértii Willd. No. 74.; Q. orientalis 
latifolia, &c., Tourn. Cor. 40., Voy. 
ii, p. 172.3 Q. Cérris Oliv. Voy. i. p. 
221., Eng. ed. ii, p. 5. and t. 12.; 
and Q. Haliphlee‘os Bose Mém. sur 
les Chénes. Fig. 1556. shows portraits 
of three leaves, taken from a specimen 
of Q. Cérris vulgaris gathered in the 
arboretum at Milford in 1835, and 
there erroneously named Q. lusitanica. 
We have observed a similar diversity of appearance in the leaves 
of an old tree of Q. Cérris in the grounds at 
Buckingham Palace. 
1554. Q. C. vulgaris. 
1555. Q. C. vulgaris. 1556. Q. C. vulgaris. 
¥ Q. C. 2 péndula Neill in Lauder’s Gilpin, vol. i. p. 73.—Branches pen- 
dulous. The handsomest tree of this variety in Britain is proba- 
bly that at Hackwood Park, 40 ft. high, from a specimen of which 
Jig. 1557, was taken. The branches not only droop to the ground, 
but, after touching it, they creep 
along the surface to some distance, 
like those of Sophira japénica 
péndula, p. 196. 
¥# Q. C. 3 laciniata. (fig. 1558.)—There 
is a fine tree of this interesting 
variety in Hackwood Park. 
1557. Q. C. péndula. 1558. Q. C. laciniata. 
¥ Q. C. 4 variegdta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — Leaves variegated. 
b. Leaves dentate. Cups of the Acorns bristly. 
¥ Q. C. 5 austriaca. Q. austriaca Willd. No. 76.; Q. Cérris Host Syn. 
520., a and 6 No. 28.; Q. crinita y Cérris Lin., Lam. Dict. i. p. 
