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bridizes with Q. iyrata-x Q. Comptonae.—Q. Andromeda Ridd. differs in 
its smooth leaf- bts des whieh are veinless on both sides.— The rough bark 
furnishes a favorite anchorage for ‘‘air-plants’’ and many species of them 
may be found on it in the more southern latitudes. The spread of the branches 
is, often, much greater than the height of the tree. 
17. Q. his pcd Sarg. Shrub, or tree becoming 15 m. tall the bark 
brown, sometimes rather pale, broken into aps pc "Jeaf-blades 
obovate or elliptic, or somewhat cuneate, 5-10 cm. long, sinuately 3-lobed 
near the apex, or merely undulate, sparingly ee ones th, lustrous 
above: acorn e or nearly so; cup dod i e 15-20 mm. 
wide; nut void. oval ovoid, e is ong. [Q.. e E dica. 
Ma ur J—(CHAPMAN’S-OAK. ScRU oS ee hammock rub, 
Coastal Plain, Fla te S. MINES as var a on the Rd ides abo 
Port pedem Flo lorida, resembles Q. bi eal but it has thick-edged acorn- 
cups. It may represent another specie 
18. Q. Rolfsii Small. Shrub, or small tree 7 m. tall, with hard rigid branches, 
the bark brown, scaly: leaf- "blades cuneate, 2.5-6 cm. long, mostly 3-lobed 
at the apex, or sometimes 5-lobed, bright- Min oe us and finely reticulate 
bo pale and thinly stellate- -pubescent t ben acorns usually in pairs at 
the ends of short peduneles: cup hemisphe E stout pai about 1.5 
. em. broad; nut pup E n5 d broadest 3d the middle, 2—2.5 em. long, 
about ia included in cup.—(ROLFS’-OAK. SCRUB-OAK. \— Hammocks, and 
scrub, lower E coast, r3 
Q. succulenta Small. Shrub, mostly about 1 m. tall, with soft, partly 
Bb. spreading. branches, the ba rk brownish, slightly scaly: le af-blade es 
linear to cuneate, fleshy-coriaceous, 2—4.5 cm. long, entire or with 3—5 slightly 
: h. 
; : 
spinescent lobe-like teeth, smooth and glabrous above Eo pe beneat 
ns peduneled; cup saucer-shaped, 3-4 mm. high, broad; nut 
d conic, 1-1.5 cm. long, only the very "base included 1 in the cup.— 
ands, S pen. Fla. 
20. pa pumila Walt. Shrub with underground stems, the branches 3-6 dm. 
ta sometimes taller: ous oo ipie narrowly e n varying to 
ue or oblanceolate, ong, more or less mentose be- 
neath, entire, os night reped: acorns sessile or m sO; cup 
saucer-shaped, sometimes deeply so, 12-15 mm. wide; nut ovoid, 10-15 mm. 
lon pigs iei -OAK. )— Pinelands, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and N. C. 
. myrtifolia Willd. Shrub, or tree becoming 6 m. tall, the bark brown, 
00 r somewhat furrowed: leaf-blades obovate or oval, -5 em. long, 
entire, evergreen, shiny above ^ ull beneath: acorn sessile nearly so; cup 
i 1 mm. wide; 
; : Chapm.]— ha 
mocks, se crub, ied sand-ridges, Coastal Plain, Fla. to [e bes S. C.—Supposed 
- to us h Q. —xQ. oviedoensis.—An ent form of this 
Species fro lake foin of Florida, with larger at Toad ed leaf- 
blades, has bo deseribed as Q. inopina Ashe. 
22. Q. microcarya Small Shrub, or tree becoming 5 m. tall, the bark 
brown, often any fissured and sealy: leaves deciduous; blades broadly 
spatulato in outline, 5-10 em. long, undulate or shallowly lobed, Nds in 
the vein-axils = UN ay sessile; cup deep saucer-shape wide; 
nut yore oid, 8-9 . long, n early lo in the cup.— — Granite socio along 
streams or SEE Little § B uc Mt. on the Piedmont, Ga. 
