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The acorns, like those of the Turkey oak, remain on the tree for two years. 



The Angoumois oak, [Translator's note: a former province in west central 

 France], Quercus tauza, Desf, [Translator's note: or Quercus toza] has very firm 

 pinnatifid leaves. The lobes often are uneven, whitish and cottony underneath and very 

 downy on top. The acorns are on axillary peduncles, and their cupules are not at all 

 bristly. 



This oak tree grows twenty to twenty-four meters tall. Its wood, which is hard and 

 knotty, can't be used for slitwork but it's valuable for construction and for heating. The 

 new branches, supple and flexible, are used to make hoops for vats and barrels. The 

 acorns are sought after for pig food, M. de Secondat believes that this was the true oak 

 tree of antiquity. 



Range. The moorlands of Bordeaux and several other parts of France. 



"The brush oak, in the vicinity of Angers, doesn't differ from the Angoumois, or 

 tauzin oak" says M. Desfontaines. "Nor does a small stunted oak tree that's very common 

 in the moorlands of le Temple near Nantes that some botanists have mistaken for a 

 separate species". It's easy to be convinced that this observation is correct when the 

 different branches of these varieties of oak trees preserved in that professor's herbarium 

 are compared. Besides, the size of the tauzin and the shape of its leaves vary depending 

 on the soil in which it grows. It has the advantage that it can be grown on dunes and can 

 fertilize arid and uncultivated terrain. 



SECTION TWO. 



OAK TREES WITH EVERGREEN LEAVES. 



The holly oak, Quercus ilex, Linn., is a medium sized tree, twisted and very- 

 branchy. Its wood is heavy; the bark on its trunk is thin, smooth or slightly cracked. The 

 leaves are petiolate, oval-lanceolate, entire 



