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branchlets dark red and covered at first by short pale silvery tomentum, soon be- 

 coming green and glabrous, lustrous, dark red-brown or orange color in their first 

 -winter, growing darker in their second year and ultimately dark gray-brown. 

 Winter-buds ovate, gradually narrowed and acute at the apex, about i' long, with 

 imbricated light chestnut-brown scales puberulous toward the thin sometimes ciliate 

 margins. Bark of young trunks and branches smooth, lustrous, light browu fre- 

 quently tinged with red, becoming on older trunks f'-l^ thick, light gray-brown, 

 generally smooth and covered by small closely appressed scales. Wood heavy, 

 hard, strong, coarse-grained, light brown, with thin rather darker colored sapwood; 

 sometimes used in construction, and for shingles and clapboards. 



Distribution. Borders of swamps and river-bottoms in deep moist rich soil; 

 valley of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts to southern Missouri, and 

 southward to the valley of the lower Potomac River, Virginia, central Kentucky, 

 southwestern Tennessee, northern Arkansas and the eastern borders of the Indian 

 Territory; rare and of small size in New England; exceedingly common on the coast 

 plain south of the Hudson River; of its largest size and very abundant on the bot- 

 tom-lands of the streams of the lower Ohio basin. 



Often cultivated as an ornamental tree in the northeastern states and in the coun- 

 tries of western and central Europe. 



3. Quercus Georgiaua, M. A. Curtis. 



Leaves convolute in the bud, oval or obovate, gradually narrowed and wedge- 

 shaped at the base, divided generally about half way to the midribs by wide or nar- 

 row oblique sinuses rounded at the bottom into 3-7 lobes, the terminal lobe ovate, 

 acute, or rounded and entire or frequently furnished with 1 or 2 small lateral teeth, 

 the lateral lobes oblique or spreading, mostly triangular, acute and entire, or those 



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of the upper or of the middle pair often broad and repand-lobulate at the oblique 

 ends, sometimes gradually 3-lobed at the broad apex and narrowed and entire below, 

 or equally 3-lobed, with broad or narrow spreading lateral lobes, or occasionally 

 pinnatifid, when they unfold bright green tinged with red, ciliate on the margins 

 and coated on the midribs, veins, and petioles with loose pale stellate pubescence, at 

 maturity thin, bright green and lustrous above, paler below, and glabrous or fur- 



