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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



2. CiNEREA. 



Mich. 



Q. foliis perennanti 



Leaves perennial, 



bus, c^oriaceis, oblongo- coriaceous, oblong-Iafl- 

 lanceolatis, integerri- ceolate, entire, with the 



mis, margine subrevo- 

 lutis, apice mucronatis, 

 subtus stellatim tomen- 

 tosis; friictibiis sessili- 



margm 



slightly 



revo 



lute, mucronate at the 



summit, stellularly to- 



underneath; 



mentose 



bus 



5 



nuce subglobosa. 



fruit sessile; nut nearly 

 spherical. 



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Mich. 2. p. 197. Si..pi:4.p.425. Pursh, 2. p. 626. Nutt. 2. p. 214. 



Q. Pumilis, Walt. p. 234. , , r e, „ oi 



Icon. Mich. Querc. No. 8 t. 14. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 81. 



A small tree rarely exceeding 20 feet in height, with i'-r^g"?^'' ^'^^^^.f 

 branched Leares i short petioles, oblong-lanceolate --X^J^^^^^ 

 sometimes obtuse, always mucronate, very slightly revolute ^^ong the margin, 

 covered underneath with a very close and short tomenturo, of a greyisn n , 

 but very generally discoloured with shades of brown. Acorn small, nti 



abundant, nearly spherical. Cup shallow,' sessile. . rarnlina and 



Grows on the dry and barren hills in the middle districts of Carina ana 



Georgia, sometimes called high ground Willow Oak, Turkey Oak ^cr 



Oak, which last name, however, includes the Q. INigra or Black Jack ana 



Q. Catesbjei, to which it more peculiarly belongs. 

 Flowers March — April. 



3. PuMiLA. Walt. 



r 



. , Q. foliis deciduis, ob- 

 longo-Ianceolatis, sub 



F^. 



Leaves 



oblong 



deciduous, 

 lanceolate? 



unfulatis, basi obtusis, I slightly undulate, ob 



at base, acute and 



apice acutis, mucrona 

 tis, subtus tomentosis 



tuse 



mucronate at the sum 



supra 

 subgloboso 



glabris; 



nuce mit, glabrous on 



the 



nut 



upper surface, tomen 

 tose underneath: 

 nearly spherical. 



Walt 



p. 234. Nutt. 2. p. 214. 

 Q. Phellos, var Pumila, Mich. 2. r- --. - 

 Q. Sericea, Sp. fol. 4. p. 424. Pursh, 2. p. 626. 



p. 197. 



