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FAGACEAE (BEECH FAMILY) 



681. Q. palustris. 



GSO. Q. rubra. 



divergent and sparingly cut-tootlied 



tending to be deeper and somewhat turhinate (Q. 

 ainhi(jua and borealis Michx. f. ; Q. coccinea, var. 

 ambigua Gray.) 



12. Q. palustris Muench. (Swamp Spanish or Pin 

 O.) Cup Jiat-saucer-tihaped^ sometimes contracted into 

 a short scaly base or stalk, fine-scaled, very much 

 shorter than the usually glo- 

 bose or depressed acorn, which 

 is 1-1.5 cm. long ; leaves 

 deeply pinnatifid with diver- 

 gent lobes and broad rounded 

 sinuses. — Low grounds, chietly 

 on the coastal plain and in 

 the Miss, basin ; ^fass. to Va., 

 w. to Kan. and Ark. Fig. 681. 

 1.3. Q. coccinea Muench. 

 (Scarlet U.) Cup Hop- 

 shaped^ or hemispherical 

 loith a conical base (1.5-2.2 

 cm. broad), coarsely scaly, 

 covering half or more of the subglobose or short ovoid 

 acorn (1.3-2 cm. long), the scales brown, appressed 

 and glabrate ; leaves, at least on f nil-grown trees, 

 bright green, shining above, glahrous beneath, turning 

 red in autumn, deeply pinnatifid, the slender lobes 

 small; bark of the trunk gray, the 

 interior reddish. — Dry light soil, s. 

 Me. to Ont.. Minn., and Neb., s. to 

 N. C. and 111., chiefly eastw. Fig. 

 682. 



14. Q, texana Buckley. (Red 

 O.) Cup deeply saurei'-shaped or 

 somewhat turbi)iate, 2-2.0 cm. broad, 

 the light brown or ashy scales per- 

 manently tomentulose, except on the 

 margin, covering one third to one 

 half of the ovoid large (1.5-4 cm. 

 long) acorn ; leaves in maturity 

 bright green and glabrous above, 

 paler and with axillary tufts of hairs 

 beneath, turning dark red or brown 

 in autumn, the 5-9 oblong lobes 



buds 



682. Q. coccinea. 



slightly broadened upward and toothed at 

 summit; bark gray, becoming in old trees 

 reddish-brown and broken into plates. — 

 Bottom-lands and limestone hills, Ind. to 

 la., s. to N. C, Fla., and Tex. — A 

 large tree with conspicuously buttres.sed 



15. Q. ellipsoidalis E. J. Hill. (Yel- 

 low or Hi.ACK ().) Cup turbinate or 

 deeply saucer-shaped, 1.2-1.8 cm. broad, 

 the pale brown or ashy scales puberulent, 

 covering from one third to more than one 



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683. Q. tillipsuidalis. 



