-DICLINIA AMENTACES. Quercus. 
very variable in size, sometimes not above four feet, 
at others nearly twenty feet high. ‘The younger Mi- 
chaux considers Q. nana of Willdenow to be only a 
— of the present species; which I very much 
ubt. 
7. Q. foliis deciduis oblongis utrinque acutis mucronatis in- 
tegerrimis nitidis subtus pubescentibus, cupula scu- 
tellata: squamis lut»-ovatis, glande subglobosa.— 
Willd. sp. pl: 4. p.428: 
Icon. Mich. querc. n.9.t. 15. 69 16. Mich. arb. 2. 
p.78. t. 13. 
On the banks of rivers, within the Allegany mountains, 
in the western countries thereof. h. May, June. 
v. v. The Shingle Oak rises to about forty or fifty 
feet. The younger Michaux considers the "i of this 
species of little value. 
8. Q. foliis deciduis obovato-lanceolatis acutis basi attenua- 
tis integerrimis utrinque glabris, cupula scutellata : 
squamis lanceolatis, glande subovata.— illd. sp. 
pl. A. p. 427. 
Icon. Mich, guerc. n. 10.t. 17. 
£. Q. foliis enin obtusis, Mich. querc. t. 18. 
In South Carolina and Georgia. h. May. v.v. The 
Laurel Oak, or as it is sometimes called Swamp Willow 
Oak, is about fifty or sixty feet high : its wood, ac- 
cording to the elder Michaux, is very valuable, and 
.. almost preferable to that of Q. virens. For what rea- 
. son the younger Michaux does not mention this spe- 
“cies, I cannot tell, unless he considers it only a variety 
of the preceding ; which most certainly is not the case, 
TT. Foliis dentatis aut lLreviter lolatis. 
9. Q. foliis subrotundo-ovatis subcordatis utrinque glabris 
remote spinoso-deutatis, cupula hemisphaerica : squa- 
mis laxis, glande ovata acuta.—/7 ald. sp. pl. 4. 
p. 431. 
eon. Pluk. phytogr. t. 196. f. 3 ? 
On the north-west coast, about Nootka Sound, Nee. 
h. +. 
10, Q. foliis longe petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis oblongisve in- 
. . .fegris vel inzequaliter | grandidentatis, cupula hemi- 
Eri subglobosa.— Mich. arb. 2. p. 87. 
Icon. Mich. 1. c. t. 16. 
_... Qn the banks of the Delaware, Pensylvania, h. May. 
. w.v. Of this singular species there is but one indivi. 
imbricaria, 
laurifolia, / 
obtusa, 
agrifolia, / 
heterophylla. / 
