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Calyx hemispherical. Acorn of a bright 

 orange color inside. Spanish red-oak. Na 

 tive of the Middle and Southern States. 



A tree with very variably shaped leaves, 

 and yet with such a constant rusty, downy 

 peculiarity as renders it at all times easily 

 recognized. It grows to a large size, but 

 seldom forms a regular or picturesque head. 

 Its foliage is the chief point of interest that 

 renders it attractive. It delights in a rich 

 and rather dry loam. The Bartram speci 

 men is a young tree of forty feet high by 

 three and a half in circumference. 



9. Q. HETEROPHYLLA, Pursh. Leaves on 

 rather long petioles, ovate-lanceolate, oblong, 

 entire, frequently with large irregular teeth. 

 Bartram oak. 



Partaking of the characters of Q. Phellos, 

 and Q. imbricaria, and supposed by many to 

 be a hybrid between them. I cannot sub 

 scribe to this opinion; firstly, because I can 

 not learn that flowering plants of Q. imbri- 

 caria ever existed in Bartram, and secondly, 

 because seedlings of the phellos show no ten 

 dency to vary, and seedlings of Q. lieterophylla 

 have more or less the characters of the origi- 



