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of the young branches is frequently mf p 
covered with a yellowish. corky ay Ys 
substance, like that which is found Se he 
on the liquidambar, and some A \ ye ul 
kinds of elm.” This oak is found, . \s DS ol 
according to Michaux, in the great- Ai Wr dh 
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est abundance beyond the Alle- ~ 
ghanies, in the fertile districts of < 7 
Kentucky and West Tennessee; ee 
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and in Upper Louisana, near the 
Missouri. According to Pursh, 
it is found within the mountains, 
on dry slate or limestone hills ; and 
in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the 
country of the Illinois; and also on Vl 
the banks of the Mississippi and the 1751 4 
Missouri. The wood, according 
to Michaux, is inferior to that of the white oak, and is little esteemed in 
the United States ; but, according to Pursh, the wood is excellent. There 
are trees in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
The portrait in our last Volume is from the latter. 
* 11. Q. optusi’LoBA Michr. The blunt-lobed-/eaved, or Post, Oak. 
Identificat.on. Michx. Quer., No. 1. t. 1.; Pursh, 2. p. 632.; Michx. Arb. Am., 2. p. 36.; Smith 
in Rees’s Cycl., No. 78. 
Synonymes. @. stellata Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 452., Ait., No. 26., Wangh. Amer., 78. t. 6. f. 15., N. 
Du Ham., 7. p. 180., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; Iron Oak, Box white Oak, American Turkey Oak (so 
a because the acorns, which are sweet, are eaten by the wild turkeys), upland white Oak, 
Engravings. Michx. Quer., No. 1. t. 1.; Arb. Amer., 2. t. 4.; N. Amer. Syl., 1. t 9.; Wangh. 
Amer., t. 6. f. 15.; our jig. 1732. ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves oblong, slightly pubescent beneath, sharply wedge- 
shaped at the base; lobes obtuse, the lower ones deeply sinuated, and the 
upper ones dilated, and slightly bilobed. Calyx hemispherical. Fruit oval, 
and rather smal |. (Micha., adapted 
The height of this tree, according to 
Michaux, rarely exceeds 40 ft., with 
a trunk not more than 15 in. in dia- 
meter, and a head disproportion- 
ately large; owing to the “ early 
division of the trunk into limbs, 
with which the secondary branches _-s 
form more acute angles than is Gs 
usual with other tree.. The 
branches are, also, bent into elbows 
at certain distances, which renders 
the tree easily distinguishable, even 
when the branches have fallen.” 
The bark is thin, and of a greyish 
white. The wood is yellowish, and 
with no tinge of red. The leaves 
are on short petioles, and so deeply lobed as to have almost a star-like shape 
whence Wangenheim called it Q. stellata. The upper lobes are much broader 
than the lower ones ; and the leaf is attenuated at its base. The texture is 
coriaceous, and the colour is a dusky green above, and greyish beneath. 
In autumn, the ribs assume a rosy tint, but never that purplish red which is 
observable in those of the scarlet oak. The acorns, which are produced 
in abundance, are small, oval, and three parts covered with a slightly rugged 
greyish cup: they are very sweet, and form a delicious food for squirrels 
and wild turkeys; whence the tree is, in America, often called the turke 
' oak. ‘“ In New Jersey, near the sea, and in the vicinity of Philadelphia,” 
