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It is not known how it would adapt itself to high ground, but it is 

 believed this species is worthy a trial as a shade tree. It is apparently 

 hardy in the northern counties. 



Quercus Beadlei Trelease. (Quercus alba x Michauxii). This hybrid 

 between the white and cow oak was found by the writer in 1913 in 

 the White River bottoms 3 miles east of Medora in Jackson County. 



The tree measured 3.54 meters (139 inches) in circumference breast 

 high. Specimens were distributed under No. 19,037, and the deter- 

 mination was made by William Trelease, our leading authority on oaks. 



5. Quercus Prinus LinnaBus. (Quercus montana Willdenow of some 

 recent authors). CHESTNUT OAK. Plate 44. Medium to large sized 

 tree; bark dark, tight, deeply fissured, the furrows wide, and the 

 ridges continuous; leaves on petioles 1-3 cm. long, 1-2 dm. long, obovate 

 to lanceolate, those growing in the shade usually the widest, rounded at 

 the base, usually narrowly so or even wedge-shaped, short or long taper- 

 pointed at the apex, the apex blunt, margins coarsely and nearly regu- 

 larly crenate-toothed, the teeth broad and rounded, dark green above 

 at maturity, a lighter and usually a yellow or grayish green beneath, 

 only slightly hairy above when young, soon becoming entirely glabrate, 

 very pubescent beneath when young and usually remaining so until 

 maturity; petioles, midrib and primary veins beneath are usually 

 conspicuously yellow, which is a distinctive character of this species; 

 acorns solitary or in pairs, on short stalks usually about 1 cm. long, 

 sometimes sessile; nuts large ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2-3 cm. long, en- 

 closed generally for about i/ their length in a thin cup; scales with 

 triangular blunt tips, generally somewhat tuberculate and pubescent 

 on the back; kernel sweet. 



Distribution. Maine, northern shore of Lake Erie, to west central 

 Indiana and south to northern Georgia and Alabama. In Indiana its 

 distribution is limited to the knobstone and sandstone area of the State. 

 Its distribution has been fairly well mapped. Two large trees on the 

 edge of the top of the bluff of the Ohio River at Marble Hill which is 

 located in the south corner of Jefferson County is the eastern limit of its 

 range. It crowns some of the ridges, sometimes extending down the 

 adjacent slopes a short distance, from Floyd County north to the south 

 side of Salt Creek in Brown County. Its range then extends west to the 

 east side of Monroe County, thence southwestward to the west side of 

 Martin County, thence south to the Ohio River. Where it is found it is 

 generally such a common tree that the areas are commonly called 

 chestnut oak ridges and are regarded as our poorest and most stony land. 

 In Floyd and Clark counties it is usually associated with scrub pine. 

 In the remainder of its range it is generally associated with black jack 



