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ture of insects, common to different | species of this genus, 
ae also a black colour to the dyer.) 
§1. Fructification biennial; leayes setaceously 
mucronate. 
} Leaves mostly entire. 
Species. 1. Q. Phellos. (Willow Oak). 2. cinerea. 
(Grey Oak, Upland Willow Oak.) 3. pumila, Mich. &. 
sericea, Willd. Scarcely more than a swamp variety of 
the preceding, but seldom more than a foot high, while 
cinerea usually becomes a small tree. (Running Oak.) 
eS virens. The Live Oak, of slow growth like Q. Rodur 
of Europe, ship-timber which is said to be 
equally ¢ ble. It is occasionally cultivated in the mari- 
time parts of South Carolina, procaine the most magni- 
ficent and important vistas-. Through the avidity of a 
temporary commerce it has been eradicated from exten- _ is 
Sive districts, without the pent een of either private ‘i 
_ or public caution for its renewal, although the soil in ma- 2 
> Ry places is scarcely calculated for any other production. : 
:  §. maritima, Ovs. Shrubby, leaves semperviren', often 
Se es toothed, smooth, sad bf the sume ur on both | 
t Marine Oak.) i 
er myrtifolia. Leaves sempervirent, small and coriace- 
us, a Behaghea: awnless, smooth, acute at either ex- 
a ve shining and reticulately veined, margin 
lute. Has. On Cumberland island, Florida.— “ir. oF 
- v.#. In Herb. Collins. Leaves scarcely larger than 2 
f Box; the fruit still. unknown. 7. imbricaria. | 
Oak.) : An occidental species, 8. ./aurifolia. -- 
* 
+ Leaves toothed or shortly tobed. “ 
ifolia. Indigenous to the North West Coast of 
America. 10. heter ‘ophylla. (Bartram’s Oak.) May not 
this be an anomalous variety of coccinea 2 11. . Remisphe- 
_vica, Bartram. Willd. alse Q. aqua’ ica, Willd: 2. nana, Q. 
muna, Willd. 12. nigra, 8. * pumula, Suberborescent; 
: very small..v. v. In Bartram’s garden, also ra ew : 
3. tinctoria, 1. digculir, 
and lobed. 
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