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13. Q. ilicifolia, Wang. (Brar-Oax.) Shrubby; leaves obovate, with 
8-5 angular or short and broad mostly entire lobes, acute at the base, white- 
tomentose, like the branchlets, when young, at length smooth and dark green 
above ; fruit short-peduncled ; cup shallow, saucer-shaped, with coarse scales, - 
enclosing about one third of the ovate nut. (Q. Banisteri, Michx.) — Barren 
soil in the upper districts, Georgia, and northward. — A shrub 39-49 high. 
Leaves 3' -5'long. Fruit abundant. 3 
$2. Fruit annual: leaves awnless, deciduous. 
* Leaves sinuate-lobed. 
14. Q. obtusiloba, Michx. (Posr-Oax.) Leaves with 5-7 broad 
rounded or notched lobes separated by wide open sinuses, narrowed at the base 
into a short petiole, pubescent beneath ; cup hemispherical, enclosing one third 
or one half of the oval nut. — Cold clayey soil, Florida, and northward. — A 
tree 40°-50° high. Nut 3/ long. Leaves 4' -6' long. 
Var. parvifolia. Leaves smaller (11/— 3! long), oblong, obtuse, entire or 
sinuate-toothed, nearly smooth on both sides, rusty-pubescent, like the branchlets, 
when young ; nut larger. — Sand-ridges near the coast, West Florida. — A shrub 
or small tree. 
15. Q. alba, L. (Wmıre Oak.) Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, with 
7-9 mostly obtuse and entire narrow lobes separated by narrow sinuses, nar- 
rowed into a petiole, densely tomentose, like the branchlets, when young, at 
length smooth or glaucous beneath ; fruit large, nearly sessile ; cup hemispheri- 
cal, enclosing one third of the oblong-ovate nut.— Damp woods, Florida to 
Mississippi, and northward.— A large tree with white bark. Leaves 4/-6! 
long. Nut about 1! long. 
16. Q. macrocarpa, Michx. (Mossy-cur Oax.) Leaves thin, obovate- 
oblong, pubescent or pale beneath, acute at the base, short-petioled, slightly or 
strongly few -many-lobed ; the lobes rounded, entire or obtusely toothed ; fruit 
large; scales of the cup thick, the upper ones produced into long awns; nut 
ovoid, included, or half enclosed in the cup. — Woods and river-banks, North 
Carolina, and northward.— A middle-sized tree, Leaves 6/—15'long. Nut 
1! - 13! long. 
17. Q. lyrata, Walt. (Over-cur Oax.) Leaves crowded at the end of 
the branchlets, obovate-oblong, acute at the base, 7 —9-lobed, white-tomentose 
beneath, or at length smoothish, shining above, the lobes triangular, acute, and 
entire; fruit sessile; cup round-ovate, with rugged scales, almost covering the 
roundish nut. — River-swamps, Florida to North Carolina.— A large tree. 
. Leaves 5! 8' long, short-petioled. Fruit 1’ long. 
* ** Leaves toothed. 
a. Q. Prinus, L. (Swamp Cursrxut-Oax.) Leaves oblong or obo- 
vate-oblong, obtuse, with rounded teeth, smooth and shining above, pale and 
pubescent beneath, acute ‘at the base, short-petioled ; fruit large, short-peduncled; —— 
. . Cup hemispherical, rugged with tubercular scales, enclosing the base the 
. Youndish or oblong-ovate nut. — Low grounds, Florida to ) sip s 
Le eames in Nut about 1^ long. cum NE s 
