. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. y/~\r ..--â Genus Castanea, Tournf. Castanea vesca. G^, or SPANISH CHESNUT. Linn. syst. MoncBciaPolyandria. Castanea vesca, Fetalis Castanea, GjERt. vol. i. 181. t. 37. f. Syn. p. Arb. Brit. ch. v. p. 198?Linn. sp. pi. Eng. Flor. i\r. Flor. Hibern. p. 251. 322 CASTANEA. Specific characters.âLeaves long, lanceolate, deeply serrated, and acuminate,glabrous on both sides. The prickles of the calyx compound and six. Though the oak is usually called, and, indeed
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. y/~\r ..--â Genus Castanea, Tournf. Castanea vesca. G^, or SPANISH CHESNUT. Linn. syst. MoncBciaPolyandria. Castanea vesca, Fetalis Castanea, GjERt. vol. i. 181. t. 37. f. Syn. p. Arb. Brit. ch. v. p. 198?Linn. sp. pi. Eng. Flor. i\r. Flor. Hibern. p. 251. 322 CASTANEA. Specific characters.âLeaves long, lanceolate, deeply serrated, and acuminate,glabrous on both sides. The prickles of the calyx compound and six. Though the oak is usually called, and, indeed recognizedas the monarch of the woods, it has a rival of formidablepretensions in the tree we are about to describe. Indimensions, and in longevity, the Chesnut seems in noway its inferior; nor do we think it less picturesque inform, or its foliage less imposing, either in richness oreffect; and though the spread and diameter of the headof the Chesnut may, generally speaking, not be so greatas that of the oak, its ramification is equally bold and easy,. i^y^i and its trunk presents a still more effective and striking-exterior, from the deep and wide clefts into which thebark is split and divided. In fact, the only particularin which the Chesnut exhibits a decided inferiority, isin the quality of its timber, which, unlike that of theoak, which gains strength and durability by age, beginsto deteriorate at heart, ere the tree has passed muchbeyond the first half century of its growth ; this seemsa point well ascertained and established, and not as seems to suspect, incidental to the action ofclimate upon the Chesnut in this country, as the timber SWEET, OR SPANISH CHESNUT. 323 of this tree, even in warmer continental districts, is affectedin the same manner, and at as early an age as it is inEngland or in Scotland. By Linnaeus and several other botanists the Chesimtwas included among the beeches, G. Fagus, but by mostof the moderns it is considered sufficiently chara
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