42 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. cupulifer.e. 



Long considered a variety o£ the Post Oak, which it resembles in the nature and color of the 

 pubescent covering of the young branches and the under surface of the leaves, and in the hairy anthers, 

 Que rem Chapnianl differs from that species in its larger and more acute winter-buds, in its smaller and 

 usually entire or only sHghtly sinuately lobed leaves, which are glabrous at maturity on the upper 

 surface, and in the thicker scales of its cup, and seems entitled to specific rank. 



The varietal name by which this tree was first designated having been previously used for 

 Oak, the name of the venerable author of the Flora of the /Southern Uwted 

 worth Chapman,^ who first distinguished and described it, has been given to it. 



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Dr. Alvan Went 



1 See vii. 110. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate CCCLXX. Quercus Chap:mani, 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A staminate flower, enlarged. 



3. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



4. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



5. A sterile branch, natural size. 



6. An axillary winter-bud, enlarged. 



