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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



CUPULIFER^. 



tasesj or those of the 



leaves are about half 



& 



the staminate borne in the 



The flowers open in March and April, when the 

 axils of linear-lanceolate hairy caducous bracts 



der hairy red-stemmed aments from four to five inches in length, and the pistillate 



ped 



The calyx of the staminate flower is puberulous and 



divided 



fou 



r 



fi 



lobes shorter than the stamens, which are fo 



five 



number, with oblo 



yellow anthers. The involucral scales of the pistillate flowers are bright red, pubescent, and hairy at 

 the margins with long rusty hairs ; the elongated reflexed stigmas are darker red. The fruit, which 



ripens 



the autumn of the second year, is usually solitary and is borne on a stout peduncle marked 

 with pale lenticels and rarely more than a quarter of an inch long. The nut is oval, full and rounded 



^n inch in breadth, dull lierht brown, and 



both ends, about an inch in length and three quarters of 



ed at the apex with a th 



of snow-white tomentum ; the cup, which embraces about a third 



of the nut, is thin, turbinate, and often gradually narrowed into a stout stalk-like base 



light red 



brown, lustrous and puberulous on the inner surface, and covered by ovate-oblong rounded scales which 



tend 



over 



th 



e rim 



d down 



third of the inner surface ; and are coated with de 



hairy pubescence, except along their thin bright red mar 



Q 



Catesb 



habits dry ba 



ridges and sandy bluffs and hummocks in the 

 ghborhood of the coast from North Carolina to Cape Malabar and the shores of Pease Creek 



Florida, and to eastern Louis 



Comparatively rare toward the 



limits of its range 



most abundant and grows to its largest size on the high bluff -like shores of bays and estuaries in South 



Carolina and Georgia. 



Individual trees supposed to be hybrids between Quereiis Cateshcei and Querciis nigra have been 



same region 



observed 



of South Carohna/ and Dr. J. H. MeUichamp ^ has found 



the 



other tree^ which is supposed to be a hybrid between Querms Cateshcei and Qiiercus laurifi 



Quercus Catesbcei x nigra. indicates a cross with some other, e; 



Quercus Cateshcei x aquatica^ Eugelmann, Trans. St, Louis Ravenel believed, Quercus brevifolia. 



Mr 



Acad, ill ^00 (1877). 

 ? Quercus nigra, y sinuata^ Lamarck, DicL i. 721 (1783). 



2 Joseph Hinson MeUichamp, the son of the Reverend Stiles 

 MeUichamp, who for many years was preceptor of Beaufort Col- 



Quercus smwaia, Walter, Fl. Car. 235 (1788). — A. de Candolle, lege and afterwards pastor of St. James' Church on James Island 



Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 74. 



near Charleston, and of Sarah Cromwell of Charleston, was born 



A tree, about forty feet high, found by Dr. J. H. MeUichamp in St. Luke's Parish, South CaroUna, on the 9th of May, 1829. 



many years ago growing on a sandy ridge near Bluffton, South A large part of his boyhood was passed in Beaufort, and at this 



Carolina, with Quercus Catesbcei, Quercus digitata, and Quercus Vir- time he imbibed from his father, who was n lover of the woods 



giniana, and in the neighborhood of Quercus nigra and Quercus bre- and fields, that taste for botany which he has never lost. He was 



vifolia, and now destroyed, was believed by Dr. Engelmann to be a graduated from the South Carolina College in 1849 and from the 



hybrid between the Turkey and the Water Oaks and identical with Medical College of Charleston in 1852, and then established him- 



the Quercus sinuata of Walter (Plate ccccxviii.). The leaves varied self as a physician at Bluffton, South Carolina, where he has since 



from oblong to obovate or nearly rhombic ; they were gradually resided, except during the War of Secession, when he served as 



narrowed and wedge-shaped at the base, and acute at the apex, with surgeon in the army hospitals of his native state. Absorbed in the 



sinuate shallow obtuse lobes, or sometimes they were dentate-lobed cares and anxieties of a large professional practice in a region of 



with spreading acute bristle-pointed lobes ; when they unfolded they scattered population and bad roads, Dr. MelUchamp has been able 



were covered, especially below, with rusty articulate hairs, and at to render his correspondents substantial assistance by his patient 



maturity were thick and firm, dark green and lustrous above, pale and critical study of the flora of a region particularly rich in inter- 



and glaucous below, with the exception of tufts of dark hairs in esting plants. A keen observer and tireless collector, with no 



desire beyond that of increasing knowledge, he has done a real 

 service to science through the aid he has given other students, and 

 or very short-stalked, with an oval nut full and rounded at the I am glad to take this opportunity to acknowledge my indebted- 

 apex, about two thirds of an inch long, and inclosed for one third ness to him for the assistance he has rendered me by studying the 

 of its length in the thin hemispherical turbinate cup covered by trees, and especially the Oaks, of the Carolina coast region. 



the axils of the primary veins, from four to six inches in length and 

 from half an inch to three inches in width. The fruit was sessile 



thin ovate oblong scales rounded at the broad apex and coated with 



Mellichampia, a genus of Mexican Milkweeds, was dedicated to 



pale pubescence. In the winter-buds, the color of the branchlets, him by Asa Gray. 



and the articulate hairs of the young leaves, this tree resembled 



^ Quercus Cateshcei x laurifolia, Engelmann, Trans* St. Louis 



Quercus Cateshcei, but the thin cup of the fruit without the scales Acad. iii. 539 (1877). 

 turning down into the interior, which are so marked in that species, 



