470 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



County, Big Nancy. Morgan, Madison, and Lauderdale counties. Bibb County, 

 Tionus. Not frequent. Prefers a calcareous soil. 



Economic uses: Of little importance. 



Type locality not ascertained. Locality in Michx. Fl. : "Hab. in montilms Allc- 

 ghanis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Quercus michauxii Nutt. Gen. 2 : 215. 1818. Cow OAK. BASKET < )AK. 



Quercus prinus var. michaujcii Chap. Fl. 424. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 2:609. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 476. Chap. Fl. 424. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 414. Sargent. Silv. N. A. 8 : 67, t. 38:2. 



Carolinian and Louisianiaii areas. Delaware to Florida, southern Indiana, Mis- 

 souri. Throughout the Gulf States to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State. In rich bottom lands, subject only to occa- 

 sional overflow. Most frequent and of largest dimensions in the Tennessee Valley, 

 on the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers and their larger tributaries north of the 

 lower Coast Pine belt. Rare in the Pine region and in the Coast plain. Mobile 

 County, Bayou La Batre. 



Economic uses: Of great importance as the most abundant source of white oak 

 timber. 



Type locality: ''Indigenous to alluvial lands, from the Delaware to St. Marys in 

 west Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Quercus brevilobata (Torr.) Sargent, Gard. & For. 8: 93. 1895. 



TEXAN WHITE OAK. PIN OAK. BASTARD OAK. 



Quercus obtusifolia var. brei'ilobata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 206. 1858. 



Quercus durandii Buckl. Proc. Phila. Acad. 1860 : 445. 1861. 



Chap. Fla. ed. 3, 447. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 415. Sargent, Silv. X. A. 

 8:71,384. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia to Alabama, central Mississippi, and 

 western Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Prairie region. On rich calcareous ridges. 

 Blonut County, valley of Mulberry Fork; Warnock Mountain, 600 feet. Bibb County, 

 Pratt's Ferry (E. A. Smith). Most frequent and of best development in the Prairie 

 region, between the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Hale County, Gall ion. Dallas 

 County, IJniontown. Wilcox County (ttuckley). Frequently 80 feet high and 2 feet 

 in diameter. 



Economic uses: Of some value for its timber and for fuel. 



Type locality : "Mountain gorges near Howards Springs, western Texas ( Bigelow)." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Quercus virginiana Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 16. 1768. LIVE OAK. 



Quercus sempervirens Walt. Fl. Car. 234. 1788. 



Q. rirens Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 356. 1789. 



Ell. Sk. 2:595. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 477. Chap. Fl. 421. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 416. Sargent, Silv.N. A. 8 : 99, 395. 



CUBA, NORTHERN MEXICO, COSTA RICA. 



Louisianian area. Coast of the South Atlantic and Gulf States, from southern 

 Virginia to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain, and adjacent pine hills; scarcely seen north of latitude :;i . 

 Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers middle of April; fruit ripe, October, 

 November. 



Economic uses: Valuable for its timber. The bark is used in tanning. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Quercus virginiana maritima (Michx.) Sargent, Silv. N. A. 8 : 100. 1895. 



Querciis phellos maritima Michx. Hist. Chen. Am. no. 7, 1. 13, f. 3. 1801. 



Q. maritima Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 424. 1805. 



Q. virens maritima Chap. Fl. 421. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 596. Chap. Fl. 1. c. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands near the seashore. Mobile County, 

 Navy Cove. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



