. 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 . 1.; d. nigra Thore Cklor. Lund., 381.; Q. Tbsa Bosc Journ. Hist Nat., 2. p. 155.; Q. stolonifera Lapcyr. PI. Pyr., 582. ; Chene noir
. 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 . 1.; d. nigra Thore Cklor. Lund., 381.; Q. Tbsa Bosc Journ. Hist Nat., 2. p. 155.; Q. stolonifera Lapcyr. PI. Pyr., 582. ; Chene noir Secondat Mem. du Chene, t. 2. and t 5.; N. Du Ham., 7. t 56.; Bosc Journ. Hist. Nat, 2. t. 32. f. 3.; and our fig. 1696. Spec. Char,, Sfc. Leaves oblong, pinnatifid, stalked; downy beneath; some-what heart-shaped and unequal at the base; lobes obtuse, slightly stalked. ( Willd.) A low tree, a native of the Pyrenees. Introducedin 1822. This species forms a smaller tree than Q. pedunculata or ; from both of which it is distinguished by its roots, which runchiefly near the surface, and throw up suckers. The trunk seldom aaainsa greater circumference than from 6 ft. to 9 ft. The bark is dark-colouredand chapped. The leaves are petiolated ; and the acorns are borne onshort peduncles, generally two together. The tree is readily known, fromits infancy upwards, from every other oak, in spring, by the dense covering. CHAP. CV, CORYLA^CEiE. QUEuCUS. 184^ of woolly down that is spread over its young leaves,which, on their first appearance (in the climateof London, three weeks later than those of thecommon oak), are of a reddish tinge. The tree isfound, in France, in the Lower Pyrenees, and inevery part of the west, as far as Nantes, almostalways on poor sandy soil. In the Landes, it isknown under the name of chene noir, tauzin, ortauza. At Angers, and at Nantes, it is calledchene doux; at Mons, chene brosse; and amongthe nurserymen in these countries, ch
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