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never ripens its seeds there. This may be 

 owing to the fact of its growing there in dry 

 gravelly soil, while in its native places it is 

 found in swamps. Nevertheless, our speci- 

 menjias attained a fair size, being sixty-two 

 feet high and six feet two inches in cir- 

 cumference. It has something the appear- 

 ance of a white-oak when seen at a distance, 

 and in the Bartram tree, indicates a head of 

 a very spreading character. 



11. Q. MACROCARPA, Michaux. Leaves 

 lyrate, downy beneath, deeply and sinuately 

 lobed, the lobes obtuse and spreading. Cup 

 deep, scaly, and fringed with bristles. Acorns 

 large, thick, and ovate. Burr oak. Over- 

 cup white-oak. Native of the Western States. 



A powerful rival to the white-oak, having 

 the advantage besides of very handsome 

 acorns. The Bartram specimens, on dry 

 gravelly soils, do not indicate very lofty trees, 

 but have widely spreading heads. The finest 

 is sixty-three feet high and six feet in cir- 

 cumference. 



12. Q. NIGRA, Linnceus. Leaves broadly 

 wedge-shaped, slightly 3-5 -lobed at the end, 

 covered with rusty dots beneath. Cup very 



