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.45 to .5 inch broad aud covers one-half or more of the 

 slender brown nut which has a len«-th of from .7 to .8 

 inch and a breadth of form .4 to .5 inch. The nut is 

 silk}^ canescent at the summit and is persistently beak- 

 ed with the long- and slender base of the style. This tree 

 fruited abundantly in 199 +, and was theonh" hio-h ground 

 white oak in eastern North Carolina that did do so. 

 The}^ are small trees 20 to 30 feet in heigfht, g-rowing- 

 in the hig-h pine barrens of eastern North Carolina. 

 When trees are killed by fire the roots usually sucker 

 freely. The bark is similar to that of the type. 



