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The present individual,~~as well as Q. tinctoria, coccinea, elongata, and 

 palustris, are included under the denomination of Red Oaks in the United 

 States, and it must be owned that they are very nearly allied species for 

 which it is very difficult to find distingushing characters. 



32. QUEKCUS CATESBAEI. Barren Scrub Oak. 



Q. Catesbaei. Foliis brevissime petiolatis basi cuneatis oblongis profunde 

 sinuatis glabris, lobis tribus quinisve divaricatis dentatis acutis setaceo- 

 mucronatis, cupula turbinata ampla, squamis obtusis marginalibus introflexis, 

 glande subglobosa. Pursh. 



Q. Catesbaei, Michx. f. N. Am. Sylv. v. 2, p. 103, t. 22 ; Willd. Sp. PI. 

 v. 4, p. 446 ; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. v. 2, p. 630. 



Q. Catesbaei, Willd. Sp. PL 4, p. 446 ; Michx. f. Hist. Chenes Am. n. 17, t. 29 ; 

 Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 2, p. 101, t. 20; Catesb. Car. i. t. 23; Sm. in Rees' 

 Encyc. 29, part 1st, no. 62; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2, p. 630; Nutt. Gen. 2, p. 214. 



Found in the lower parts of the two Carolinas and in Georgia, growing 

 in a wretched meagre soil. The wood serves only for fuel. Pursh says in 

 pine-barrens, Carolina to Georgia, not above 15 feet high ; abundant. 



33. QUERCUS GARRYANA. 1 



Q. Garry ana. Foliis petiolatis deciduis oblongis superne latioribus 

 subtus pubescentibus, sinubus acutioribus, angulis obtusis, calycibus fructus 

 sessilibus subtus planis. 



Flower in May ; acorns ripe in September of the second year. 



Leaves deciduous, alternate, with short footstalks ; oblong, dilated 

 upwards ; regularly sinuated, with obtuse, rounded, pointless, entire lobes, 

 varying in length from 3 to 5 inches, and from 2| to 3 inches broad ; of a 

 strong coriaceous texture, mossy -green above, with a white stellate pube- 

 scence underneath, which is very conspicuous in the young half -expanded 

 leaf. Nerves or ribs strong and prominent, covered with minute linear, 

 blunt, brown, chaffy scales. Stipules deciduous, linear-spatulate, densely 

 hirsute, half an inch in length. 



Male flowers in pendulous, dense, hairy, yellow spikes, H inch in length, 

 springing from the buds below the leaves. Segments of the calyx, usually 

 fine, fringed with long, white, silky hairs. Stamens generally seven, with 

 a dotted central disc. Calyx of the female, coriaceous, scaly, downy, globose. 

 Style, cylindrical, stiff, short. Stigmas, five, purple. Germ, quite sessile, 

 ovate. Acorns, sessile, in pairs, usually one abortive, nearly 1 inch long, 

 about the size of a large filbert, with a shallow flat cup, and having an even 

 edge and linear obtuse pointed scales, soft and silky on the outside. 



This is a handsome straight tree of considerable dimensions, 40 to 

 100 feet high, varying in thickness from 18 inches to 3 feet in diameter, 

 widespreading and much divided by its branches at the top. Few trees 

 have trunks exceeding 30 or 35 feet of clean wood or undivided by 

 branches, much the greater number about 25. There is a great peculiarity 

 in the bark of this species, different from any other with which I am 

 acquainted, which is in the close resemblance it has to the bark of Fraxinus 

 namely, being divided by regular oblique shallow reticulated fissures, the 

 1 Q. Garryana, Dougl. ex Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. p. 159. 



