MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



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Grows in the vicinity of salt water. 

 Flowers April. 



6. Myrtifolia. Willd. 



Q. foliis perennanti- 



Leaves 



perenniaU 



bus, coriaceis, parvis, [ coriaceous, small, ob- 

 oblongo-obovatis, mu- I long-ovate, unawned, 



ticis, 



utrinque acuiis, 



glabris, supra nitidis 

 reticulatisque, margine 

 revolutis. 



acute at each end, gla 

 brous, shining and reti 

 cuJate on the upper sur 



face, mar 



in revolnte. 



Sp. pi. 4. pi. 424, Pursh^ 2, p. 6261 Nutt. 2. p. 214. 



Branches terete, heaves on short petioles, coriaceous, oblong, rather 

 acute at base, entire and slightly revolute, shining on ihe. upper surface, 

 opake and glabrous underneath, resembling very much those of the conunon 

 Myrtle, willd; scarcely larger than those of the Box, Nutt. 



This specie of oak was discovered, I believe, by Mr. Kim, on Cumberland 

 Island in Georgia, and probably extends along the sea-coast of Florida; its 

 fruit is still unknown. 



Flowers. 



7. Laurifolia* Mich. 



Q. foliis sub peien- 

 nantibus^ sessilibus^ 



oblongo - laiiceolatis^ 

 sub acutis, basi atteiiu- 

 atis, inteQ-errimis, «- 



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Leaves nearly peren- 

 nial, sessile, obfong-lan- 

 ceolate, nearly acute 

 tapering at base, en 

 tire, 



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[labrous on both 



trinque glabris; nuce [ surfaces; nut somewhat 



subovata. 



ovate. 



^lich. 2. p. 197. Sp. pi. 4. 427. Pursh, 



!r. Nutt. 2. p. 214 



Q- Hemisphaerica, Banram's Travels, p. 320* 



Icon. Miclu Querc. t. IJ and 18j perhaps also t. 20. f. 2 



A tree sometimes growing 40 — 50 feet high, and 2 — 4 feet in diameter, 

 ^ith its branches regularly expanding and forming a large handsome hemis- 

 pherical head. Leaves oblong -lanceolate, sometimes obovate, acute or ob- 

 tuse, nearly sessile, very glabrous on both surfaces, with the margins slightly 

 revolutej those of the young plant toothed and irregularly sinuate; all some- 



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