MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



595 



Icon. Mich, Querc. t. 13 — f. 1, 2. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 84. 



A small shrub with creeping rools, rarely exceeding two feet in height. 

 Stem slender^ virgate, tomentose when young, sparingly branched. Lraca^' 

 on short petioles^ oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at base, undulate particularly 

 when young, the under surface covered with a dense hoary tomentum, the 

 tipper when young sprinkled with a stellular pubescence, becoming glabrous 

 with age. The sterile florets are produced in such profusion, as to render 

 the plant very conspicuous at the season of flowering. Acorn small, not 

 produced in any abundance even when not destroyed by fire, nearly sphe* 

 rical. Cup shallow, on a very short peduncle. 



The figure of Michaux the j'ounger, arb. for. which recalls the plant very 

 accurately to my recollection, represents the leaves as tapering at base, spe* 

 cimens before me have them all very obtuse. In this respect it probably 

 varies. 



This has always appeared to me a very distinct species, marked by many 

 characteristic features. In many situations where the woods have not for 

 years been burnt, I have seen it growing, without exceeding the lieight I 

 have specified. I know not how Mn Nuttall was led to consider it as a 



Swamp variety of the Q. Cinerea; for although it does not g 



lly grow 



in a soil as arid as the sand hills in the middle country to which the Q. Cine- 

 rea appropriately belongs, it is found only in the driest pine barrens along 

 that district which is emphatically called the "low country of Carolina and 

 Georgia.^' 

 Flowers March — April. 



4. ViREJVS. 



Aitop. 



bus^ 



Q. foliis pereiinaiili- 



coriaceis 



? 



ovali 





Leaves perennial-, 

 coriaceous, oval-lance- 

 olate^ entire^ with the 

 margins revohite^ ob- 

 tuse at base, generally 

 acute at the summit, 

 stellularly pubescent 

 underneath 



? 



fruit 



on 



lanceolatis, integerri- 

 mis, margine revolutis, 

 basi obtusis, apice sub 

 acutis, subtus stellatini 

 pubescentibus; frucli- 

 bus pedunculatis; nuce 



oblonga. 



Sp. pL 4. p. 425. Mich. 2, p. 196. Pursh 



Q- Sempervirens, Wait. p. 234. 



Icon. Mich. Querc. 1. 10—11. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 67^ 



, A large tree, with spreading curved and twisted branchesj rarely exceed- 

 ^"g 50 feet in height, but covering with its enormous limbs when growing in 

 ^P^n situations, a large circumference. The Stem sometimes attains a dia-^ 

 jj^eter of 5 — 7 (eety but generally divides into large branches at 8 or 10 feet 

 *rom the ground. Leaves oval-lanceolate, widi the margins conspicuously 

 ^volute^ pubescent, almost tomentose underneath, entire oij the old tree. 



peduncles; nut* oblong. 



Nutt. 2. p.2l4- 



