882 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
also of considerable flexibility. Boutcher recommends the tree for making 
warm and lofty hedges, 40 or 50 feet high, in a.short time. A dry deep soil, 
calcareous or sandy rather than clayey, and a situation low rather than 
elevated, best suit the ilex. It is exceedingly difficult to propagate, other- 
wise than by the acorn ; and no tree is more difficult to transplant, “ as the 
roots of it, when not interrupted, run as straight down into the earth as a 
carrot ;” and hence the best mode is to have the plants raised in small pots, 
one in a pot, as is generally practised in the London nurseries. 
# 29. Q. (I.) Batto‘Ta Desf. The sweet Acorn Oak. 
Identification. Desf. Atl., 2. p. 350. ; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 432. ; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 157. 
Synonymes. ? Ilex major Clus. Hist. 1. t. 23. ; Chéne a Glands doux, Chéne Ballote, Fr. 
Derivation. The term Ballota seems to be a modification of the Spanish word bedlota, which means 
acorns generally, 
Engravings. Our figs. 1612. and 1613., the latter being a sprig, and the former a leaf of the natural 
size, both taken from a specimen of the original tree, planted by Desfontaines in the Jardin des 
Plantes, at Paris. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves elliptical, coriaceous, denticulated or entire ; downy 
beneath. Bark even. Nut cylindrical, elongated. (Desf) An 
evergreen tree or large bush. Bar- 
bary, in Algiers and Morocco. 
Height 20 or 30 feet, with a trunk 
from 3 ft. to 6 ft. in circumference. 
Introduced in 1696. 
Obviously a variety of Q. Mex; 
from which, however, it differs in its 
leaves being more rounded at the 
ends, and also more white and cottony 
** beneath, and of. a more coriaceous f 
TOLZE Qe (TejiBallotes texture; and in its acorn being of l 
double the length of that of Q. I‘lex, and in having a mild and 101s. ¢. (1) Battota. 
agreeable taste. 
2 30. Q. (J. B.) cramu’nt1a L. The Holly-leaved Grammont Oak. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1413.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 158. 
Synonymes. ? Ilex foliis rotundiéribus, &c., Magn. Monsp. 140. ; Chéne de Grammont, Fy. ; Wel- 
lenblittrige Eiche, Ger. ; Encina dulce, and Gouetta, Span. Captain S. E. Cook suggests that 
Q. hispAnica would be the most suitable name for this species, which may be considered as forming 
the natural oak of Spain; whereas the term gramuntia was applied to it by Linneus, from its 
having been found in the remnant of a wood on the estate of Grammont, neat Montpelier, where, 
according to DeCandolle, the species no longer exists. 
Engravings. Our fig. 1614., from the tree at Purser’s Cross ; fig. 1615., an acorn of the natural size, 
traced from one that was sent to us by Captain Cook ; and the plate of the tree at Purser’s Cross, 
in Arb. Brit., 1st edit. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves roundish-elliptical, nearly 
sessile, undulated, with deep, spinous, divaricated 
1fis. Q. (XZ. B.) gramGntia. 1615. Q. (J. B.) graméintia. 
teeth; densely downy beneath; heart-shaped at the base. An evergreen 
tree or large bush. Grammont, near Montpelier; and throughout Spain. 
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