. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1638. Q. infect& 1639. Q. irfectfiria. App. ii. Oaks of Africa, Asia Minor, and Persia, only partially introduced, Q. obtecta Poir. Diet. Encyc. Suppl. 2. p. 218., N. Du Ham. 7. p. 163. — A very doubtful species. Q. infectoria Oliv. Voy. dans I'Emp. Ottom. 1. p. 253. t. 14. Q. c
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1638. Q. infect& 1639. Q. irfectfiria. App. ii. Oaks of Africa, Asia Minor, and Persia, only partially introduced, Q. obtecta Poir. Diet. Encyc. Suppl. 2. p. 218., N. Du Ham. 7. p. 163. — A very doubtful species. Q. infectoria Oliv. Voy. dans I'Emp. Ottom. 1. p. 253. t. 14. Q. cariensis Willd.; Ciiene a Galles, Fr. ; Farber Eiche, Ger. (Our Jigs. 1638. and 1639.; the first from Olivier, and the . second from Du Hamel.)—Leaves ovate-oblong, very smooth on both sides, deeply toothed, somewhat sinuated, deciduous. Fruit sessile; ripening the second year. Calyx tessellated. Nut elongated, nearly cy- lindrical. (5m.) A decidu- ous shrub. Turkey and Greece, and the North of Africa. Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced ?. The leaves are about 1 or 1| inches long, bright green, smooth on both sides, but paler beneath ; their serratures are deep and broad, not acutely pointed. Fruit solitary, nearly sessile. Cup slightly downy ; its scales not very distinct. Acorn two or three times longer than the cup, smooth, nearly cylindrical. Olivier observes that this plant, besides producing the galls of commerce, bears a number of different kinds of this excrescence, which are neglected as useless. The de- scription and figures of these galls, and of the insects which cause their production, are in our first edition. Q. Libani Oliv. t. 49. f. 2. (onv fig. 1640.), Q. rigida WiUd. (^g. 2104. in p. IIIOJ, Q. iberica 5feJ)., Q. eas- taneaefdlia C. A. Meyer (Plantae Caspico-Caucasicae, 1. p. 9. t. 1. ; and owvfig. 1641.), and mongolica Fisch. are described in our first edition. Q. mannifera Ljndl. Bot. Reg. Chron., 1840, No. 72., and also Q. mongolica, appear to be noth
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