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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



CUPULIFEKiE. 



of 



Qiiercus Georgiana inliabits the sloiDes of Stone Mountain, an isolated granite rock with an altitud 



■ly 



hundred feet above the level of the sea, in De Kalb County in central Geor 



& 



few other 



between the Yell 



where it was discovered by Mr. H. W. Ravenel/ and on a 



and Oconee Rivers in the region immediately south and east of Stone Mountain.^ 



Introduced into the Arnold Arboretum in 1876, Querciis Georgiana has proved perfectly hardy 

 eastern Massachusetts^ growing as a tall shrub, and flowering and ripening its fruit. 



1 Henry William Kavenel (1814-1887) was born in the Parish in which he was associated with Mr. M. C. Cooke, an English mycol- 



of St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, and was graduated from ogist, of which eight volumes devoted to the species of South Caro- 



the South Carolina College in 1832. After twenty years devoted lina, Georgia, and Texas were issued. His name is also preserved 



to planting in his native parish, Mr. Kavenel moved to Aiken, South by Ravenelia, a genus of the Uredinese, and by many species of 



Carolina, where the remainder of his life was passed. Born with Cryptogams. 



a fondness for natural history, he devoted himself to botany with No other American botanist, perhaps, has minutely studied so 



enthusiasm and success, exploring minutely in his youth the region many forms of the vegetable kingdom as Ravenel, and none has 



about St. John's, and later with equal care the vicinity of Aiken. been more respected or beloved. Ruined financially by the War of 



He critically studied flowering plants and Mosses, Lichens, Fungi, Secession and afflicted for many years by deafness, which almost 



and Algae; a large number of cryptogamous and a, few flowering deprived him of the sound of the human voice, he bore bis misfor- 



plants were discovered by him, and his knowledge of the crypto- tunes with cheerfulness and equanimity, and labored industriously 



gamic flora of the southern states was unsurpassed. Mr. Ravenel 



life to increase knowledge 



was at one time the agricultural editor of the Weekly Neios and (See Fai^low, Bot. Gazette, xii. 194.) 



Courier of Charleston, and at the time of his death was botanist to 



- For many years known only on Stone Mountain, in July, 1893, 



the Department of Agriculture of his native state. Although not Quercus Georgiana was found by Mr. John K. Small on Little Stone 



a voluminous writer, Mr. Ravenel was the author of a number of 



miles 



critical botanical papers, but he is best known by his Fungi Caroli- ite hill eighteen miles east of Stone Mountain, and on a second 

 niani Exsiccati in five volumes, the first published series of named granite hill twelve miles east of the first, 

 species of American Fungi. This was followed by a second series 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate CCCCXXV- Quercus Georgiana 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A staminate flower^ enlarged. 



3. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



4. A fruiting branch, natural size. 

 6. A fruit, natural size. 



6. A leaf, natural size. 



7. A leaf, natural size. 



8. A winter brancblet, natural size. 



