LXX. C'OUYLA v CEjE : QUF/ROUS. 



873 



1590. Q. paiistris. 



The wood is coarse-grained, and resembles that of the red oak. In the cli- 

 mate of London, the tree is remarkably hardy, and its rate of growth is much 

 more rapid than that of every other American oak, unless we except Q. am- 

 bigua, which is very rarely to be met with. This may be rendered obvious 

 at a glance, by inspecting the line of oaks at Messrs. Loddiges's, where there 

 are three trees, marked Q. palustris, Q. Banisteri, and Q. montana, (all of 

 which are the Q. palustris of Michaux,) which are above 30ft. high, which is 

 several feet higher than any of the others, with the single exception of Q. ambi- 

 gua. The same result as already mentioned (p. 862.) is observable in the Bois 

 de Boulogne. The leaves are much smaller than those of the other species of this 

 section : they are smooth, of a pleasing green, supported on very long petioles, 

 and, on old trees, are very deeply laciniated. On young trees, they are much 

 less so, as will be seen by./fg. 1589., copied from Michaux's Hutovre des 

 C/tenes, in which a is a seedling of one year old, and b a leaf from a tree two 

 years old. The acorns (j%. 1566. i) are small, round, and contained in 

 flat shallow cups. 



-* 20. Q. CATESB^Y Willd. The Barren. Scrub, or Catesby's, Oak. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p 446. ; Michx. Quer., No. 17. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 630. 

 S-unonymes Q. rubra /3 Abb. and Smith Ins. 1. p. 27. ; Q. 'sculi divisdra, &c., Cat. Car. 1. t. 23. 

 Engravings. Michx. Quer., t. 29, 30. ; and our figs. 1591. and 1592. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves smooth, oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, deeply 

 and widely sinuated, on short stalks : lobes 3 or 5, divaricated, acute, 2- or 

 3-cleft, bristle-pointed. Calyx of the fruit turbinate, half as long as the 

 nut. (Willd.) A deciduous shrub or low tree. Carolina and Georgia. 

 Height 15 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1823. 



The general appearance of this tree is stunted : its trunk is crooked, divid- 

 ing into branches at 2 or 3 feet from the ground, and covered with a thick, 

 blackish, deeply furrowed bark The foliage is open, and its leaves are 

 large, smooth, thick, and coriaceous towards the close of summer, deeply 

 and irregularly laciniated, and supported on short petioles. With the first 

 frost, they change to a dull red, and fall the ensuing month. The acorns are 



