. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. TURKEY, OR MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. 289. Quercus Cerris. , or MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. Quercus Cerris, Linn. sp. pi. 1415. Willd. No. 75. Loudons Arb. Brit. p. in. ch. cv. p. 1846. The Turkey Oak is specifically distinguished by oblong,deeply-lobed, and sinuated leaves, with short petioles andhairy beneath, the lobes lanceolate, acute, and somewhatangular. The buds surrounded with long linear stipules u 290 which spring from around their axils. The calyx or acorncup echinate, or armed with bristly scales. A century, it ap
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. TURKEY, OR MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. 289. Quercus Cerris. , or MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. Quercus Cerris, Linn. sp. pi. 1415. Willd. No. 75. Loudons Arb. Brit. p. in. ch. cv. p. 1846. The Turkey Oak is specifically distinguished by oblong,deeply-lobed, and sinuated leaves, with short petioles andhairy beneath, the lobes lanceolate, acute, and somewhatangular. The buds surrounded with long linear stipules u 290 which spring from around their axils. The calyx or acorncup echinate, or armed with bristly scales. A century, it appears, has now elapsed since the firstintroduction of the Turkey Oak into Britain, and thoughit grows with great rapidityand vigour, bearing, with per-fect impunity, our severest sea-sons, and thriving upon soilsof middling and even inferiorquality, it has not hitherto metwith that encouragement it ap-pears to deserve both as anornamental addition to our syl-va, and as a useful and profit-able timber tree. It is from aconviction of its importance inthe latter point of view, andsupported by th
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