CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 153 



LAUREL OAK. 



North Carolina, south near the coast to Mosquito inlet and cape Romano, Florida, and along the Gulf coast to 

 the shores of Mobile bay. 



A large tree, 18 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 meter in diameter ; most common and reaching 

 its greatest development on the rich hummocks of the Florida coast. 



Wood heavy, very stroug and hard, coarse-grained, inclined to check in drying ; layers of annual growth marked 

 by several rows of rather small opeu ducts ; medullary rays broad, conspicuous ; color, dark brown tinged with red, 

 the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.7673 ; ash O.S2. 



282. Quercus heterophylla, Mk-haux t. 



Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 87, t. 16; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. i,64, t. 18. PurslyFl. Am. Sept. ii, 627. Barton, Compend. Fl. Philadelph. ii, 

 167. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 214; Sylva, i,15; 2 ed. i,24. Green in Universal Herbal, ii,442. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 357. 

 Sweet, Cat. 2 ed. 466. Beck, Bot. 328. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 292. London, Arboretum, iii, 1894. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 383. 

 Gale in Prop. Nat. lust. leT>.'>, 70, f. 1. Wood, Cl. Book, 645. Buckley in Proc. Philadelphia Aead. 1862, 361 ; 1862, 100. Gray, Hall's 

 PI. Texas, 21. Liebinann, Chenes Am. Trop. t. B. Meehan in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1875, 437, 465 ; Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 

 10. Leidy in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1875, 415. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 385, 391. Martindale, Notes on. 

 the Bartram Oak, 3; Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vi, 303. Ward in Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 22, 114. 



Q. aquatica, var. heterophylla,, Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 290. A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi", 68. 



Q. nigra, var. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 255. 



Q. Phellos X tinctoria, Gray, Manual N. States, 4 ed. 406. 



Q. Phellos, var. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 453. 



Q. Phellos XCOCCinea, Eugelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 541. 



BARTRAM'S OAK. 



New Jersey, Salem and Cumberland counties, "restricted to a line or belt bordering extreme tidal points of 

 streams entering the Delaware river where the alluvial terminates and the upland commences," (Commons); 

 Delaware, near Townsend station and Wilmington ; North Carolina (M. A. Curtis in herb. Canby) ; eastern Texas 

 (E. Hall) ; this perhaps Q. Durandii. 



A small tree, 12 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.45 to 0.60 meter in diameter; rare and very local. 



Wood heavy, hard, very strong, close-grained, compact; layers of annual growth marked by several rows of 

 small open ducts; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous; color, light brown tinged with red, the sap-wood 

 somewhat darker ; specific gravity, 0.6834 ; ash, 0.17. 



283. Quercus cinerea, Miehaux, 



Hist. Cheues Am. No. 8, 1. 14 ; Fl. Bor.-Arn. ii, 197. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 425. Persoon, Syir. ii,567. Poiret, Suppl. ii, 212. Miehaux 

 f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii,82,t. 14; \. American Sylva, 3 ed. i,61,t. 16. Aiton, Hort. Kew, 2 ed. v, 288. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii,626. 

 Smith in Rees' Cycl.xxx, No. fi. Nuttall. Genera, ii, 214. Nouveau Duhamel, vii, 151. Elliott, Sk. ii, 594. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 

 857. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 294. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 6 ed. 294. Engelmann & Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 262. 

 Scheele iu Rosiner, Texas, 446. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 255. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 421. Curtis in Rep. Geological 

 Surv. N. Carolina, 37. Wood, Cl. Book, 643; Bot. & Fl. 305. A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 73. Orsted in Saerskitt. Aftryk. af. Nat. 

 For. Viden. Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 1806, 73. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 452; Hall's PI. Texas, 21. Young, Bot. Texas, 502. Koch. 

 Dendrologie, ii-, 58. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 26. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 385,395. 



Q. Primus, ft. Linnaeus, Spec. 1 ed. 995. 



Q. hltmilis, Walter, Fl. Caroliiiiana, 234. 



Q. Phellos, var. cinerea, Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 354. Loudon, Arboretum, iii, 1895, f. 1773. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi,161. 



UPLAND AVILLOW OAK. BLUE JACK. SAND JACK. 



North Carolina, south near the coast to cape Malabar and Pease creek, Florida, west along the Gulf coast to 

 the valley of the Brazos river, Texas, extending north through eastern Texas to about latitude 33. 



A tree 9 to 15 meters iu height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.20 meter in diameter; sandy barrens and 

 dry upland ridges. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, close grained, compact; layers of annual growth marked by several rows of not 

 large open ducts; medullary rays distant, thin, conspicuous; color, light brown tinged with red, the sap-wood 

 darker ; specific gravity, 0.6420 ; ash, 1.21. 



