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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



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what clustered near the summit of the small branches. Fruit ovate. Cup 

 shallow, nearly sessile. 



This is one of our handsomest species of oak, and is frequently cultivated 

 around buildings instead of the live oak, as it is supposed to be more easy to 

 rem9ve, more rapid in its growth, and by some considered, on account of the 

 regularity of its branches, more beautiful. The old trees shed their leaves 

 freely towards the close of the winter, and are nearly naked in March. The 

 young plants generally retain their foliage. The timber is supposed to pos- 

 sess neither the strength nor durability of the live oak. 



The figure in Mich. Querc. t. 20. f. 2. exactly resembles the young plants 

 of this species. And as this oak, though growing in dry soils, is more known 

 by the name of "Water Oak,'' than by any other appellation, it is not im- 

 possible that Michaux may have been misled by its popular denomination 

 to insert a figure of it among the real Water Oaks. 



Fhave always considered this as the real Q. Hemisphaerica of Bartram. 

 It certainly is the species to which his description most appropriately ap- 

 plies. 



Grows in rich sandy soils along the margin of swamps, appearing to take 

 the place of the live oak as you leave the margin of the ocean, but growmg 

 also with the live oak on the sea-islands. 



Flowers April. 



8. Lmbricaria. Mich. 



Q* foliis deciduis^ ob 



Leaves deciduous, 

 iitrinque acutis, j obiong^ acute at each 



^nd^ mucronate, entire, 



pubescent un- 



loiigis^ 

 mucronatis^ 



mis, nitidis, subtus pu 

 besceiitibus; nuce sub 



mtegerri 



shining, 



derneath; nut nearly 

 globosa. I spherical 



Mich. 2. p. 19r. Sp. pL 4. p. 428. Pursh, 2. p. 627^ Nutt, 2- p. 214. 



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A tree 40 



Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 78 



-50 feet high, 12—18 inches in diameter, with numerous irre- 

 gular branches. Leaves lanceolate, entire, mucronate, shining on the up- 

 . P^r surface, very pubescent and somewhat ferruginous underneath, on vety 

 short petioles. Fruit rather small, nearly spherical. Cup shallow, nearly 



sessile 



The leaves of this species are much larger than those of the Q- Laun^- 

 lia, and are very pubescent underneath; the fruit also differs in figure, i^^ 

 wood is said by Michaux to be of little value, but it splits easily, and is used 

 in the Western States, where it more frequently occurs, for shingles. 



Grows in the mouulains of Carolina, Dr. Macbride; not found in the low 

 Country. 



Flowers 



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