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The white oak (Quercus alba). Moft of 

 the young trees which were not above a 

 quarter of a yard in diameter, had the great- 

 eft part of their leaves ftill on them, but 

 the old trees had loft moft of theirs, except 

 in fome places where they have got new 

 moots. The colour of the dry leaves was 

 much paler in the white oak than in the 

 black one. 



The black oak (as it is commonly called 

 here). Dr. Linnaus calls it the red oak, 

 9$uercus rubra. Moft of the you n% trees 

 ftill preferved their dried leaves. Their co- 

 lour was reddifh brown, and darker than 

 that of the white oak. 



The SpaniJJj oak, which is a mere variety 

 of the black oak. The young trees of this 

 kind likewife keep their leaves. 



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A scarce /pedes of oak which is known 

 by its leaves having a triangular apex or top, 

 whofe aneles terminate in a fhort briftle : 

 the leaves are fmooth below, but woolly 

 above *. The young oaks of this fpecies 

 had ftill their leaves. 



When I came into any wocd where the 

 above kinds of oaks were only twenty years, 

 and even not fo old, I always found the 

 leaves on them. 



* This fecms to be nothing but a variety of ihe^uercta 

 rulra. Linn, F. 



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