LXX. CORYLA CEJE : QUE RCUS. 



873 



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1590. Q. paiastris. 



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. Banlsteri, and Q. montana, (all of 

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

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

 gua. The same result as already mentioned (p. 86-2.) 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 hy Jig. 1589., copied from Michaux's Hlstoire des 

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

 years old. The acorns {Jig. 1566. i) are small, round, and contained in 

 flat shallow cups. 



^ 20. Q. Catesb/e'/ Willd. The Barren Sci-ub, or Catesby's, Oak. 



i Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 44G. ; Mlchx. Quer., No. 17. ; Tursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 630. 

 ' Synonymes. Q- rClbra /3 Abb. and Smith Ins. 1. p. 27. ; Q. 'sculi divisilra, ^'cc, Cat. Car. 1. t. 23. 

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



i Spec. C/iar., S)'c. Leaves smooth, oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, deeply 

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

 i 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, 

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



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

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

 I 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 

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



