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fruit middle-sized ; cup narrowed at the base, enclosing one half or one third of 
the nearly hemispherical nut, the broad and whitish scales closely appressed. — 
re of North Carolina, and northward. — A tree 40° — 50° high. Te 
- 5! long. 
3. Q. cinerea, Michx. (Hicn-crounp WirLow-Oax.) Leaves peren- 
nial, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, mucronate, white tomentose beneath ; 
fruit small, sessile ; cup shallow, narrowed at the base, pale, enclosing one third 
of the hemispherical nut. — Dry sandy pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina. 
— A small tree, fruiting abundantly. Leaves 2/—3' long, scurfy, like the 
branchlets, when young. 
Var. pumila, Michx. (Q. pumila, Walt.) Shrubby (19-39 high); 
branches slender; leaves lanceolate, wavy, at length smooth on both surfaces. 
— Flat or dry pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina. — Roots creeping. 
4. Q. virens, Ait. (Live Oak.) Branchlets tomentose; leaves coria- 
ceous, perennial, oblong, obtuse, somewhat rugose, smooth and shining above, 
hoary-tomentose beneath, the margins revolute ; fruit long-peduncled ; cup top- 
shaped, hoary, enclosing the base of the oblong chestnut-brown nut.— Dry or 
wet soil, in the lower districts, Florida to North Carolina. — Commonly a large 
tree with spreading branches. Leaves 2'- 4! long. 
Var. maritima. (Q. maritima, Willd.) Shrubby (49 - 10° high) ; Mee 
smooth, lanceolate, concave, mostly acute; fruit npe. — Sand ridges. along 
the coast, Florida to South Carolina. — 
Var. dentata. (Q. nana, Willd.?) Dwarf (19-99 high); earliest leaves 
flat, wedge-obovate or obovate-oblong, mucronate, toothed, at length smooth, 
the others lanceolate and entire; fruit sessile or short-peduncled, often clustered. 
— Flat pine barrens, Florida. — Leaves nearly sessile. 
* * Leaves 3-lobed at the summit, bristle-awned. 
5. Q. aquatica, Catesb. (Warer-Oax.) Léaves perennial, short-peti- 
oled, obovate-oblong or wedge-shaped, smooth on both sides, obtusely 3-lobed 
at the summit, often entire, or on young shoots pinnatifid-toothed or lobed, 
mostly awnless when old; fruit small, mostly sessile; cup shallow, flat, en- 
clo&ing the base of the hemispherical downy nut. — Swamps and wet banks, 
Florida, and northward. — A small tree, with smooth bark. Leaves 2' - ud long, 
with tufts of down in the axils of the veins when young. 
.. Var. hybrida. Smooth, with ash-colored branchlets; leaves ‘oblong. or 
` wedge-oblong, entire, emarginate, or 3-lobed at the summit, tapering or abruptly 
contracted into a short petiole ; fruit very small, closely sessile; cup shallow, 
flattened, enclosing the base of the ovate nut.— Rocky banks of Schurlock’s 
_ Spring, West Florida, and of the Flint River at Albany, Georgia. — A lofty 
tree. Leaves 3/-4! long. Fruit4/—5"]ong. ; 
6. Q. nigra, L. (Brack Jack.) Leaves short-petioled, coriaceous, broad- 
-ly wedge-shaped, rounded at the base, mostly 3-lobed at the summit, bristle- - 
. &wned, smooth aBove, rusty-pubescent beneath, deciduous ; fruit m 
ie short and thick peduncles; cup top-sha ed, with coarse trun 
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