. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Sp. PI., 4. p. 444., Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 291., Smith in Reess Cycl., No. 57. ; Q. lyrata Lodd. 1836; Q. cuneata Wang.; Q. triloba
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Sp. PI., 4. p. 444., Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 291., Smith in Reess Cycl., No. 57. ; Q. lyrata Lodd. 1836; Q. cuneata Wang.; Q. triloba Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 443., Michx. Qiter., 14. No. 26.; Q. cune^ta Wang. Forst.; the downy-leaved Michx. Quer., t 28.; N. Amer. Syl., 1. t. 23.; and OMtfigs. 1750. and 1751. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves downy beneath, sinuated, with three or more some-what falcate bristle-pointed lobes; the terminal one elongated and hemispherical. (IVilld.) A tree, varying from 30 ft. to 80 ft. , under the name of Q. elongata, in 1763; and again, under thatof Q. triloba, in 1800. Desa-iption, S/c. This oak is a very remarkable one, from the great differ-ence which exists in its leaves and general appearance, in different difference is so extraordinary, that nearly all the botanists who havewritten on the American oaks have supposed it to be two species. In the south- CHAP. CV. CORYLACEiE. QUERCUS. 1883. em states, it forms a noble tree, 80 ft. high, with / 1750 a trunii 4ft. or 3ft. in diameter; while in NewJersey the tree is never above 30 ft. high, witha trunk only 4 in. or 5 in. thick. The bark isthick, black, and deeply furrowed; and thewood is reddish and coarse-grained, with openpores, like that of the red oak. The leaves arealso extremely different : on the trees in thesouth, they are falcate, like those in fig. 1750.,copied from the plate of this tree in the NorthAmerican Sj/lva, i. t. 23. In New Jersey, theleaves are three-lobed (l
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