CHAP. CV. 



c'oryla'ce/E. que'rcus. 



1733 



is supposed to be of spontaneous growth. There is a similar tree at 

 Mill Hill, in Middlesex, on entering that village from the London side. 

 (See Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p. 576 ) There is another tree of this 

 kind at Munches, in Dumfriesshire ; and in Irving's Nursery, Dum- 

 fries, there were, in 1831, some scores of seedling oaks of the same 

 kind. Indeed, we have no doubt that in all extensive oak woods, or 



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