QUERCUS STELLATA, WANG. 77 



uniformly up to maturity ; comparatively free from insect 

 enemies but occasionally disfigured by fungous disease which 

 attacks immature leaves in spring. Propagated from seed. 



Plate XXXVII. Quercus alba. 



1. "Winter buds. 



2. Flowering branch. 



34. Sterile flower, front view. 



5. Fertile flower, side view. 



6. Fruiting branch. 

 7-8. Variant leaves. 



Quercus stellata, Wang. 



Q. obtusiloba, Michx. Q. minor, Sarg. 



Post Oak. Box White Oak. 



Habitat and Range. 



Doubtfully reported from southern Ontario. 



In New England, mostly in sterile soil near the sea- 

 coast ; Massachusetts, southern Cape Cod from Falmouth to 

 Brewster, the most northern station reported, occasional ; 

 the islands of Xaushon, Martha's Vineyard where it is rather 

 common, and Nantucket where it is rare ; Rhode Island, 

 along the shore of the northern arm of Wickford harbor 

 (L. TV. Russell) ; Connecticut, occasional along the shores 

 of Long Island sound west of New Haven. 



South to Florida ; west to Kansas, Indian territory, and Texas. 



Habit. Farther south, a tree of the first magnitude, reach- 

 ing a height of 100 feet, with a trunk diameter of 4 feet ; in 

 southern New England occasionally attaining in woodlands 

 a height of 50-60 feet ; at its northern limit in Massachu- 

 setts, usually 10 to 35 feet in height, with a diameter at the 

 ground of 6-12 inches. The trunk throws out stout, tough, 

 and often conspicuously crooked branches, the lower hori- 

 zontal or declining, forming a disproportionately large head, 

 with dark green, dense foliage. Near the shore the limbs 

 often grow very low, stretching along the ground as if from 

 an underground stem. 



