330 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



tate, Jicute,. setaceously mucronate ; cup flat) smooth ; acorn sabgiO' 



base. 



HAB. Swampy woods. N. Y. - N. Eng. and Penn. \V. to III. 

 May. 1?. A tree 4060 feet high, with small handsomely 

 divided leaves. Acorns small, abundant. The wood is firm and 

 much used by mechanics. Water Oak. Pin Oak. 



14. Q. bannisteri Mich.: leaves on long petioles, obovate-wedgeform. 

 3 5-lobed, entire on the margin, grayish tomentose beneath ; lobes 

 setaceously mucronate ; cup subturbinate ; acorn subglobose. Q. i//i- 

 dfolia WiUd. 



HAB. Dry hills, and barrens. Can. to Geor. May. *>. A 

 shrub 4 6 feet high. Fruit -abundant Covers large tracts 

 called oak barrens, in various parts' of New-York and other 

 states. Shrub or Scrub Oak. 



* * Fructification annual. Fruit pedunculate. Leaves avfnless. 

 t Learcs lobcd. 



. 15. Q. obtusiloba Mich. : leaves oblong, sinuate, wedgeform at base, 

 pubescent beneath ; lobes obtuse, the upper one dilated and 2-lobed ; 

 cup hemispherical ; acorn oval. Q. stellata Linn. 



HAB. Sterile grounds. Can. to Flor. May. T?. A tree 30 '50 

 fe*et high, with straggling irregular branches. Leaves mostly 5- 

 lobed. Cup hemispherical, enclosing nearly half of the acorn. 

 : The timber is much esteemed in sliip building,*and is sup- 

 posed in durability and strength to' surpass that of any other 

 species of oak Xcept the live oak. '.*'* 



16. Q. macrpcarpa. Linn. < leaves tomentose beneath, deeply and ly- 

 rately sinuate-lobed ; lobes obtuse, repand, upoer. ones dilated ; cup 

 deep, with the upper scales -setose ; acorn ovate, turgid. 



HAB. Limestone hills. Penn. and throughout the Western and 



. South Western States. May. ^. A large tree with the fruit 



. larger than in any other American species. The wood is of 



excellent quality. Oeercup White Oak. 



17. Q,. olivaformis ATich. ; leaves oblong, smooth, glaucous beneath, 

 deeply and unequally siuuate-pinnatitid ; cup very deep, crenate above ; 

 acorn elliptic-oval. 



HAB. Hills. N. Y. to Vir. May. J>. A tree .somewhat re-, 

 sembling the preceding. Michaux credits it to the banks of the 

 Hudson near Albany, but I have never met with it in this vicin- 



ity- ;; ? / 



18. Q. alba Linn. : leaves oblong, pinnatifid-sinuate, pubescent be- 

 neath ; lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse* very entire, attenuate at base : 

 fruit pedunculate ; cup deep, tuberculate ; acorn ovate. 



HAB.. Fertile forests.. Throughout the U. S. May. J>. On(j 

 of the largest and most valuable of the American forest trees, 

 often 80100 feet high, and 37 in diameter. Bark while. 

 Leaves pubescent beneath when young. ^Timber firm and dura- 



' ble, and of great use in ship building and in many other arts. 



mite Oak, 



