470 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
County, Big Nancy. Morgan, Madison, and Lauderdale counties. Bibb County, 
Tionus, Not frequent. Prefers a calcareous soil. 
Economic uses: Of little importance, 
Type locality not ascertained, Locality in Michx. Fl.: ‘Hab. in montibus Alle- 
ghanis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Quercus michauxii Nutt. Gen. 2:215, 1818. Cow Oak. BASKET Oak, 
Quercus prinus var, michaucii Chap. FI. 424. 1860. 
Ell, Sk. 2:609. Gray, Man. ed. 6,476. Chap. Fl. 424. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:414. Sargent. Silv. N. A. 8:67, t. $82 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Delaware to Florida, southern Indiana, Mis- 
souri. Throughout the Gulf States to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. In rich bottom lands, subject only to oeca- 
sional overflow. Most frequent and of largest dimensions in the Tennessee Valley, 
on the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers and their larger tributaries north of the 
lower Coast Pine belt. Rare in the Pine region and in the Coast plain. Mobile 
County, Bayou La Batre. 
Mconomic uses: Of great importance as the most abundant source of white oak 
timber, 
Type locality: “Indigenous to alluvial lands, from the Delaware to St. Marys in 
west Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Quercus brevilobata (Torr.) Sargent, Gard. & For, 8:93. 1895. 
Texan Waite Oak. PIN Oak. Basrarp Oak, 
Quercus obtusifolia var. brerilobata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 206, 1858, 
Quercus durandii Buck]. Proc, Phila. Acad. 1860: 445. 1861. 
Chap. Fla. ed. 3, 447. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 415. Sargent, Silv, N. oA, 
8:71, 384. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia to Alabama, central Mississippi, and 
western Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Prairie region. On rich caleareous ridges. 
Blount County, valley of Mulberry Fork; Warnock Mountain, 600 feet. Bibb County, 
Pratt’s Ferry (#. A, Smith). Most frequent and of best development in the Prairie 
region, between the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Hale County, Gallion, Dallas 
County, Uniontown. Wilcox County (Buckley). Frequently 80 feet high and 2 feet 
in diameter, 
Economic uses: Of some value for its timber and for fuel. 
Type locality: ‘ Mountain gorges near Howards Springs, western Texas ( Bigelow),” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Quercus virginiana Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 16. 1768, Live Oak, 
Quercus sempervirens Walt. F1. Car. 231. 1788. 
@. rirens Ait. Hort. Kew. 32356. 1789, 
Ell. Sk.2:595. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 477. Chap. Pl 42l. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 
2:416. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 8:99, 395. 
Cuna, NORTHERN MEXICO, Costa Rica. 
Louisianian area. Coast of the Sonth Atlantie and Gulf States, from southern 
Virginia to Texas. 
ALABAMA? Coast plain, and adjacent pine hills; scarcely seen north of latitude 31 
Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers middle of April; fruit ripe, October, 
November. 
Kconomic uses: Valuable for its timber. The bark is used in tanning. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Quercus virginiana maritima (Michx.) Sargent, Silv. N. A.8:100, 1895, 
Quercus phellos maritima Michx. Hist. Chen, Am. no. Tt 2a, P28. 1801, 
@. maritima Willd. Sp, Pl. 4:424. 1805. 
Q. vrirens maritima Chap. F1. 421. 1X60. 
El. Sk. 2:596. Chap. F1.1. e. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands near the seashore. Mobile County, 
Navy Cove. 
Type locality: “Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
