CORK TREE. 
MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Male. Calyx of five divisions ; segments acute and often 
cloven. 
Corolla none. 
Female. Calyx hemispherical; formed of numerous im- 
bricated scales. 
Seed-vessel none. Seed an egg-shaped nut, seated 
in an hemispherical cup. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Quercus Suber. Q. foliis ovato-oblongis, indivisis, subtus to- 
mentosis ; cortice rimoso fungoso. Linn. 
Spec. Plant. Willd. 4. p. 433. 
Leaves oval-oblong, entire, and a little downy 
beneath; bark of a spongy nature and full 
of clefts. 
Suber latifolium sempervirens. Bauh. Pin. 
424. 
Cork Tree. . . Duhamel, Traite des Arlres , 2. p. 291. pi. 80. 
Blackw. Herb. pi. 193. 
This tree, which in its fructification exactly resem- 
bles the oak, and which is in fact a species of the 
same genus, is so sensible of cold, that Duhamel as- 
sures us it cannot bear the frosts of the northern 
