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266. Quercus Durandii, Buckley, 



V, 



Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1860,445; 1881, I21.-Gray, Hall's PI. Texas, 21. Young, Bot. Texas, 507. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 26. 

 Watson in Proc. Am. Acad, xviii, i56. 



Q. obttiSifolia, var. f breviloba, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 206. 



Q. annulata, Buckley ill Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 18f;0, 445. 



Q. SanJ$abeana, Buckley in Young, Bot. Texas, 507. 



Q. undulata, Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad, iii, 392, in part [not Torreyl. 



Alabama, Wilcox county (BucMey), valley of the Little Cahaba river, Bibb county {Mohr); Shreveport, 

 Louisiana?, {Buckley); Texas, Dallas {Beverchon), valley of the Colorado river {Buckley, Mohr, Sargent), west and 

 south. 



A tree 21 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.20 meter in diameter; rich bottom lands or dry mesas 

 and limestone hills, then reduced to a low shrub, forming dense, impenetrable thickets of great extent {Q. San- 

 Sabeana); nire and local iu Alabama; the common and most valuable white oak of western Texas. 



Wood very heavy and hard, strong, brittle, close-grained, inclined to check in drying ; layers of annual growth 

 marked by few large open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous; color, brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific 

 gravity, 0.9507 ; ash, 1.78; used for the same purposes as that of the white oak {Q. alba). 



267. Quercus virens, Alton, 



Hort. Kew. iii, 356 ; 2 ed. v, 287. Bartram,Travels, 2 ed. 82. Miehaux, Hist.Chfenes Am. No. 6, 1. 10, 11 ; Fl. Br.-Am. ii, 196. Willdenow, 

 Spec, iv, 425; Enum. 974. Robin, Voyages, iii, 264. Smith in Eees' Cycl. xxx. No. 5. Persoon, Syn. ii,567. Desfontaines, Hist. 

 Arb. ii,507.Poiret,Suppl.ii, 213. Miehaux f. Hist.Arb.Am. ii, 67, t. 11; N.American Sylva, 3 ed. i, 52, 1. 12. Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. ii, 626. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 214 ; Sylva, i, 16; 2 ed, i, 28. Nouveau Dubamel, vii, 151. Elliott, Sk. ii, 595. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 

 858. Cobbett, Woodlands, 446. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed.294. Loudon, Arboretum,iii, 1918, f. 1802, 1803 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 

 385. Spach, Hist. Veg.xi, 177. Engelmann & Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 234. Scheele in Eoemer, Texas, 440 ; Appx. 

 147. Penn. Cycl. xix, 216. Darby, Bot. S. States, 510. ^Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 206. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 255. Chapman, Fl, S. States, 421. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 35. Wood, CI. Book, 643 ; Bot. & Fl. 305. Porcher, 

 Resources S. Forests, 2(>;!. A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi^, 37. Orsted in Saerskitt. Aftryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 69. 

 Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 452; Hall's PI. Texas, 21. Liebmann, Chfines Am. Trop. t. 33, f. 50-,57. Young, Bot. Texas, 503. 

 Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 26. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad, iii, 383 ; iv, 191. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. iii, 178. Watson in 

 Proc. Am. Acad, xviii, 155. 



Q. Virginiana, Miller, Diet. 7 ed. No. 17. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 57. 



Q. Phellos, var. sempervirens, Marshall, Arbustum, 124. 



Q. sempervirens, Walter, Fl. Carollniana, 234. 



Q. oleoides, Chamisso & Schlechtendal in Linntea, v, 79. Martens & Galeotti in Bull. Bmx. x. No. 3. Orsted In SaersKitt. 

 Aftryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 1866, 69. 



Q. retusa, Liebmann in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 1&54, 187. Orsted in Saerskitt. Aftryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. Meddelt. 

 Nos. 1-0, 1866, 69. 



LIVE OAK. 



Mob Jack hay, Virginia, south along the coast to bay Biscayne and cape Eomano, Florida, along the Gulf 

 coast to Mexico, extending through western Texas to the valley of the Ked river, the Apache and Gaudalupe 

 mountains and the mountains of northern Mexico south of the Rio Grande at G,000 to 8,000 feet elevation {Havard); 

 in Costa Kica {Q. retusa). 



An evergreen tree of great economic value, 15 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 1.50 to 2.10 meters in 

 diameter, or in the interior of Texas much smaller, often shrubby ; on the coast, rich hummocks and ridges, a few 

 feet above water-level; common and reaching its greatest development iu the south Atlantic states. 



Wood very heavy, hard, strong, tough, very close-grained, compact, dilficult to work, susceptible of a beautiful 



polish; layers of annual growth obscure, often hardly distinguishable, containing many small open ducts arranged 



in short broken rows parallel to the broad, conspicuous medullary rays; color, light brown or yellow, the sap-wood 



nearly white; specific gravity, 0.9501; ash, 1.14; formerly very largely and now occasionally used in ship-building. 



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