CUPULIFER^. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMEPdCA. 



37 



QUERCUS MINOR 



Post Oak. 



Leaves oblong-oboyate 



Uy 5-lobed, pubescent on the lower and roughened 



with stellate hairs on the upper surface 



Quercus minor, Sargent, Garden and Forest^ ii. 471 ? Quercus villosa, Walter, i^Z. Cr/n 235 (1788). 



(1889). 



Sudworth, Rep. Sec. Agric. U. S. 1892, 327. 



Coulter, Contrih. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 414 {Man. PL W. 

 Texas) . 



Quercus alba minor, Marshall, ArMist. Am. 120 (1785). 

 Muehlenberg & WlUdenow, Netce Schrift. Gesell. Nat. 

 Ft. Berlin^ iii. 395. 



Quercus stellata, Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz. 78, t. 6, 

 f. 15 (1787). — Smith & Abbot, Insects of Georgia^ i. 

 93, t. 47. — Willdenow, Spec. iv. pt. i. 452 ; Enum. 977 ; 

 Berl. Baitmz. ed. 2, 349. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 570. — 

 Nouveau Duhamel^ vii. 180. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 161. 

 Nuttall, Sylva^ i. 13. — Spach, Hist. Veg. xi. 156. — Em- 

 erson, Trees Mass. 133, t. 3 ; ed. 2, i. 151, t. — Dietrich, 

 Syn. V. 311. — A. de Candolle, Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 22 



Quercus obtusiloba, Michaux, Hist. Chines Am. No. 1, 

 t. 1 (1801); Fl. Bor.'Am. ii. 194. — Michaux f. Hist. 

 Arh. Am. ii. 36, t. 4. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 632. 

 Nuttall, Gen. ii. 215. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 606. —Hooker, Fl 



Bor.-Am. ii. 158. — Torrey, Fl. N. T. ii. 190. 



Gray, 



3Ia7i. 414. — Scheele, Roemer Texas, 446. — Darlington, 

 Fl. Cestr. ed. 3, 265. — Brendel, Trans. III. Agrlc. Soc. 

 iii. 615, t. 2. — Curtis, Rep>. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, 

 32. — Chapman, Fl. 423. — Orsted, Vidensk. Medd. 



« « « 



ni. 



fra nat. For. Kjohenh. 1866, 66 ; Liehmann Chenes 

 Am. Trop. t. H, t. 33, f. 60. — Vasey, A^^n. Ent. and Bot. 

 ii. 250, f. 158. — Wenzig, Jahrh. Bot. Gart. Berlin^ iii. 

 178. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. lOth Census U. S^ 

 ix. 138. — Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 144, t. 1, 2. 

 (excl. var. y and 8). — Wesmael, Bidl. Fed. Soc. Hort. Quercus Driunmondii, Liebmann, Oversigt Dansk. Vi- 



Belg. 1869, 340 (excl. var. y and 8). — Koch, Dendr. ii. 

 pt. ii. 52. — Engelmann, Trans. St. Lotcis Acad. iii. 

 389. 



densk. Selsk. Forhandl. 1854, 170. — Orsted, Liehmann 

 Chenes Am. Trop. 22. 



Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. 295. — Houba, Chenes Quercus stellata, /? Ploridana, A. de Candolle, Prodi 



Am. en Belgiqne^ 265, t. — Watson & Coulter, Gray's 

 Man. ed. 6, 475. — Dippel, Handh. Lanhholzk. ii. 79. 

 Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 128. 



xvi. i)t. ii. 22 (1864).— Wesmael, Bidl. Fed. Soc. Hort 

 Belg. 1869, 340. 



A tree^ rarely a hundred feet in height/ with a trunk two or three feet in diameter^ and stout 

 spreading branches which form a broad dense round-topped head^ but usually not more than fifty or sixty 

 feet tall, with a trunk one or two feet in diameter^ and at the northeastern limits of its range generally 

 reduced to a shrub. The bark of the trunk varies from half an inch to nearly an inch in thickness^ and 

 is gray more or less deeply tinged with brown^ and divided by deep fissures into broad ridges covered on 

 the surface with narrow closely appressed scales. The branchlets are stout and marked with small pale 

 lenticels, and when they first appear are coated^ as are the young leaves and petioles^ the stalks of the 

 aments of staminate flowers^ and the peduncles of the pistillate flowers^ with thick orange-brown tomen- 

 tum 3 this gradually falls from the branchlets^ and in their first winter they are light orange-colored to 

 reddish brown and covered with short soft pale pubescence which sometimes does not entirely disappear 

 until their third year^ when they are gray^ dark brown, or nearly black, or bright brown tinged with 

 orange-color. The buds are broadly ovate, rather obtuse, or rarely acute, and usually rather less than 

 an eighth of an inch, although occasionally nearly a quarter of an inch in length, and are covered with 

 bright chestnut-brown pubescent scales coated toward the margins with scattered pale hairs. The leaves 

 are convolute in the bud, generally broadly oblong-obovate in outline, gradually narrowed and wedge- 

 shaped or occasionally abruptly narrowed and wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, and deeply divided 

 by a pair of wide lateral sinuses, which are oblique at the bottom, into two basal lobes and two upper 

 lobes separated from the terminal lobe by narrow sinuses acute or rounded at the bottom ; the terminal 



^ Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus^ xvii. 414. 



