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their sides excurved, and their vertices shortly mucronate. (Wats.) 
This is a fine broad-leaved sub-evergreen variety, of which there is a 
magnificent specimen in the Fulham Nursery. 
*t Q. C, 10/f. latifolia Hort. — Leaves broader than those of the preceding | 
variety. 
* Q.C. 11 Lucombedna. Q. Lucombedza Swt.; Q. exoniénsis Lodd. 
Cat, ed. 1836 ; the Lucombe Oak, the everg een Turkey Oak, the 
Devonshire Oak, the Exeter Oak. (See the plate of this tree in 
Arb, Brit., 1st edit.; and our jig. 1562.)—- Raised by Lucombe, 
nurseryman at Exeter, from seeds of the species sown about 
1762, and so closely resembling Q. C. fulhaménsis as scarcely to be 
worth keeping distinct. 
#8 Foliage evergreen, or very nearly so. Leaves vurying from dentate to 
sinuate. Cups of the Acorns bristly. 
This section consists entirely of subvarie- 
ties of the Lucombe Oak, which differ 
from the parent in being nearly evergreen. 
tQ. C. 12 ZL. ecrispa. Q. Lucombedna 
crispa Hort. ; the new Lucombe Oak. 
(fig. 1563.) — Leaves somewhat 
curled at the edges, and the bark 
corky. 
2 Q. C.13 L. suberdsa. Q. L. suberdsa 
Hort. — Leaves somewhat longer 
than in the preceding variety, and the 
bark double the thickness ; that from 
a specimen sent us measuring 2 in. in 
thickness. i 
2 Q.C. 14 ZL. incisa. Q.L. incisa Hort. 
— Leaves longer, and somewhat more 
deeply cut, than those of the preced- 
ing varieties. 
2Q. GC. 15 L. dentdta. Q. L. dentata 
Hort.—A fine large-leaved evergreen 
variety, lately raised in the Exeter eeace cma: 
Nursery. 
2 Q. C. 16 heterophylla. Q. L. heterophylla Hort. (fig. 1564.)—Foliage 
very variable ; also a recent production of the Exeter Nursery. 
The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigorous branches, 
which take a much more upright direction than those of the British or com- 
mon oak ; and both branches and twigs are, in every stage of the tree’s growth, 
wholly free from the tortuous character of those of that _Species. . The trunk 
is also straighter ; but the branches, at their junction with it, being remark- 
able for an unusual degree of expansion, the trunks of middle-aged trees, as 
it is observed in the Dictionnaire des Eaux et Foréts, often appear gibbous, 
The bark is comparatively smooth and dark when young, but corky as it grows 
old ; and it is reckoned less liable to chap and crack than that of the common 
oak. The leaves are of a beautiful bright shining green, somewhat glaucous or 
hoary beneath ; and they vary so exceedingly in size and shape in different 
trees raised from seed, that almost every individual, if described from the 
leaves alone, might be constituted a distinct species: they have short foot- 
stalks, and are most readily distinguished from those of oaks of every other 
section by their small buds, and the numerous linear persistent stipules which 
proceed from them. The acorns are sessile, or on very short footstalks ; and 
they are easily known by the bristly or mossy clothing of their cups. They 
are remarkably bitter and austere ; a circumstance noticed by Pliny. The 
