CHAP. CV 



COIIYLA'CEJE. ^UE'RCUS. 



1847 



* Foliage deciduous. 

 a. Leaves pinnatifid or sinuated. Cups of the Acorns mousy. 



Q. C. 1 vulgaris, Q. C. frondosa Mill. 

 Diet., ed. 5. (see Jig. 1702., and the 

 plates of this tree in our last Volume), 

 has the leaves pinnatifidly sinuated, and 

 the cups covered with soft moss. Of 

 this variety there is an endless number 

 of subvarieties. Fig. 1 702. may be con- 

 sidered as the normal form I fig. 1704. 

 has the leaves more deeply sinuated : 

 fig. 1703. is from a specimen of great 

 beauty, sent us by Thomas Brooks, 

 Esq., of Flitwick House : and fig. 1705., 

 copied from the figure given in Olivier' s 

 Travels, is the Q. crinita var. e, Lam. 

 Diet., i. p. 718., Smith in Rees's Cycl., No. 82.; Q. Tournefortii 

 Willd., No. 74., N. Du Ham., vii. p. 183.; Q. orientals latifolia, &c, 

 Town. Cor., 40., Voy.,\\. p. 172.; Q. Cerris Oliv. Voy.,\. p. 221., 

 Eng. ed., ii. p. 5. and t. 12.; and Q. Ha\i- 

 phlce v os Bosc Mem. sur les Chenes. This 

 oak was originally gathered by Tournefort 

 in valleys and plains near Tocat, in Armenia. 

 Olivier says it is met with throughout great 

 part of Asia Minor and Syria. The timber 

 is brought to the arsenal of Constantinople 

 from the southern shores of the Black Sea, 

 and is commonly employed in ship-build- 

 ing, and also for the framework of houses. 

 The tree grows to a considerable height, and 

 furnishes excellent wood. In British plant- 

 ations, it is one of the most ordinary forms 

 in which the species rises from seed. From 

 the acorns of any one of these subvarieties, all the others, and many 

 more, will seldom fail to be produced in the same seed-bed, and, 

 indeed, sometimes on the 1706 



same tree, or even on the 

 same twig. Fig. 1 706. shows 

 portraits of three leaves, 

 taken from a specimen of 

 Q. Cerris vulgaris, gathered 

 in the arboretum at Milford, 

 in 1835, and there errone- 

 ously named Q. lusitanica. 

 We have observed a similar 

 diversity of appearance in the leaves of an old tree of Q. Cerris in 

 the grounds at Buckingham Palace. 



Q. C. 2 pendula Neill in Lauder's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 73. The pendulous, 

 or weeping, Turkey Oak. — There is a specimen of this variety 

 in the experimental garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, 

 which was procured from the Botanic Garden, Amsterdam; but the 

 handsomest tree of the kind in Britain, or perhaps in Europe, is pro- 

 bably that at Hack wood Park, from a specimen of which fig. 1707. 

 was taken. This tree, which was planted in 1800, was, in 1836, nearly 

 40 ft. high, with a trunk clear of branches to the height of 8 ft. 9 in., 

 which, at the surface of the ground, was 2 ft. 9f in. in circumference. 

 The branches not only droop to the ground, but, after touching it, 

 they creep along the surface to some distance, like those of Sojjhora 



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