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i 0. Quercus, an potius Mex Marilandica, folio longo angufto falicis. 
‘The Willow Oak. ; 
This oak is always found in low wet lands: the wood is foft and coarfe-grained ; the leaves 
are long, narrow, and fmooth-edged. They drop them in Virginia, but in Carolina, where 
the winters are fomewhat milder, they ufually retain them. 
11. Quercus fempervivens, folis oblongis non finuatis. 
The Live Oak. 
ait, ane ufual height of this oak is about forty feet: its wood is heavier and more durable than 
that of any other oak in America. Though it grows to a large fize, its trunk and limbs are 
naturally crooked, and ferve excellently for timbers, knees, &c. for fhipping: they grow ufu- 
ally in falt marfhes, and only in the lower parts of the country; but if removed to a dry foil, 
become very ftraight and handfome trees; and in Carolina, their native country, are quick 
growers. The acorns are the fweeteft of all others, and ate in great efteem with the Indians, 
who ftore them up to thicken their venifon broth: they alfo draw from them an excellent {weet 
oil, which they ufe in cookery, &c. | 
12. Quercus Caftanee folis, procera arbor Virgimiana. 
The Chefnut Oak. 
This oak grows only in low and very good land, and is ‘on talleft and largeft of all the oaks 
in thefe parts of the world. The bark is white and fealy; the grain of the wood not fine, 
though it yields the largeft and faireft plank of any other oak; the leaves are large, indented 
round the edges fomewhat like thofe of the chefnut. The acorns are larger than of any 
other oak, 
13. Quercus 
