CUPULIEER^. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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be easily distinguished from Quercus rubra by its shorter and broader winter-buds, by the deeper and 

 ■wider sinuses of its smaller and more lustrous leaves, and by its deeper, paler, and more tomentose cups. 

 In Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri it is not possible to distinguish it from Quercus palustrls, with which 

 it grows, except by its fruit and by the enlarged and buttressed base of its trunk. The leaves also 



resemble those of Quercus coc( 

 probably not in the same region. 



although this species does not grow in the same situations and 



