cupuLiFER^. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA, 



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QUERCUS GEORGIANA. 



lobes 



Leaves glabrous, oval or obovate, variously sinuately lobed with usually acute entii 



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Acad. iii. 395. — "Wenzig 



vii. 406 (1849). — Chapman, Fl. 422. — A. de Candolle, 186. — Dippel, Handh. Laubholzk. ii. 116, f. 55. 



Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 60. — Orsted, Vidensh. Medd. fra nat. Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 132. 



For. Kjohenh. 1866, 72. — Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis 



A bush, with stems usually six or eight feet tall spreading into broad thickets ; or rarely of arbo- 

 rescent habit and thirty feet in height, with a trunk twelve or fourteen inches in diameter. The bark of 

 the trunk is thin, light brown, and covered with small appressed scales. The branchlets are slender and 

 marked with minute pale lenticels ; glabrous and dark green more or less deeply tinged with red when 

 they appear, in their first winter they are red and lustrous, and grow darker in their second season, and 

 ultimately dark brown or gray. The winter-buds are ovate, acute or obtuse, about an eighth of an inch 

 long, and covered by light chestnut-brown scales thin and scarious on the margins. The leaves are 

 convolute in the bud, oval or obovate in outHne, gradually narrowed and wedge-shaped at the base, and 

 divided, generally about half way to the midribs, by wide or narrow obHque sinuses, which are rounded 

 at the bottom, into from three to seven bristle-tipped lobes ; the terminal lobe is ovate, acute or rounded, 

 and entire or frequently furnished with one or two small lateral teeth ; the lateral lobes are oblique or 

 spreading, mostly triangular, acute and entire, or those of the upper or of the middle pair which are 

 usually much larger than the others are often broad and repand-lobulate at the oblique endsj sometimes 

 the leaves are slightly three-lobed at the broad apex and gradually narrowed and entire below, or are 

 equally three-lobed with broad or narrow spreading lateral lobes, or occasionally they are pinnatifid, and 

 entire and often undulate ; when they unfold they are bright green tinged with red, ciliate on the margins 

 and coated on the midribs, veins, and petioles with loose pale stellate pubescence ; and at maturity they 

 are thin, bright green and lustrous above, and paler below and glabrous or furnished with tufts of villous 

 hairs in the axils of the primary veins; usually about two and a half inches long and an inch and a haH 

 wide, they vary from one to four inches in length and from half an inch to three and a half inches in 

 width, with slender yeUow midribs and primary veins rounded on the upper side, obscure secondary 

 veins arcuate and united near the thin firm margins, and conspicuous reticulate veinlets ; they are borne 

 on slender slightly grooved petioles from one half to three quarters of an inch in length, and turn dull 

 orange and scarlet in the autumn before faUing. The stipules are linear-lanceolate, about half an inch 

 long, brown and scarious, and caducous. The flowers appear in April when the leaves are about half 

 grown, the staminate borne in slender glabrous or pubescent aments two or three inches in length, and 

 the pistillate on short glabrous slender peduncles. The calyx of the staminate flower is divided into 

 four or five broadly ovate rounded segments rather shorter than the stamens, which are four or five in 

 number with oblong slightly emarginate glabrous yellow anthers. The involucral scales of the pistillate 

 flower are rather shorter than the acute calyx-lobes and are pubescent or puberulous ; the elongated 

 stigmas are bright red. The fruit ripens in the autumn of the second season and is borne on a stout 

 peduncle rarely more than a quarter of an inch in length ; the nut is eUipsoidal or subglobose, from one 

 third to one half of an inch long, and light reddish brown and lustrous ; the cup, which incloses from 



one third to nearly one half of the nut, is cup-shaped, thick, Hght red-brown and lustrous on the inner 

 surface, and covered by thin ovate bright hght red-brown truncate scales erose on the margins.^ 



[uercus 



xxii. 75, t. 233), who foimd 



Small (Quercus 



northern slope of Stone Mountain in January, 1894. 



