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which IS the same as the Nantucket tree and should now be referred 

 to Quercus pagodaefolia. It may here be also recorded that an 

 mdividual of precisely the same kind of tree was observed at Fair 

 Haven, Mass., June 6, 1908 ; this tree was some 25 to 30 feet in 

 height and about a foot in diameter near the base. 



Quercus ilicifolla Wang. 



Abundant on the eastern side of the island, in many places 

 forming extensive thickets of so dense and rigid an entanglement 

 as to be almost impassable. Fruiting abundantly. 



Quercus alba L. 



Rare on the western side of the island ; frequent or locally 

 common in thickets on the eastern side in the section east and 



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northeast of a line drawn from Quaise to Tom Never*s Swamp. 

 The trees are mostly 6 to 10 feet in height, but become at least 

 fifteen feet high in low swampy woods in Polpis. No fruit was 

 found. 



The stoutest native tree of any kind met w^th on the island 

 was a white oak in a dense thicket in Quaise which measured 40 

 inches in circumference a foot above the base. 



* Quercus stellata Wang. 



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Met with at four stations on the eastern side of the island. 

 The nearest of these to the town is about two and a half miles out 

 on the Wauwinet road, where there is a group of straggling trees 

 covering a space ten or twelve paces in longer diameter, the trunks 

 mostly ascending and the tallest less than ten feet high ; these 

 were a second growth from old stumps that had been cut long 

 before. They bore abundant immature fruit, Sept. II, 1907. A 

 single tree about six feet high was found in 1906 in Saul's Hills 

 west of Altar Rock Hill, and a tree of about the same height in 

 Tom Never's Swamp, less than a half mile southeast of 'Sconset. 

 A close group of four trees less than ten feet in height was dis- 

 covered in 1899, about a mile northwest of 'Sconset. In 

 1908, these trees seemed to be dying; the ground about them 

 had been much trampled by cattle and the trunks much abraded; 

 the largest trunk was 19^ inches around a foot above the 

 base- 



