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of pale hairs, 6'-8' long, 4 '-5' wide, with a thin midrib and slender primary veins running to 

 the points of the lobes; petioles slender, glabrous, 2'-2|' in length. Flowers: staminate 

 in slender glabrous aments 6'-7' long; calyx divided into 4 or 5 rounded slightly villose 

 lobes shorter than the stamens; pistillate on pubescent peduncles, their involucral scales 

 ovate, light brown, pubescent; stigmas red. Fruit: nut oblong-ovoid, narrowed and 

 rounded at apex, f'-lj' long, |'-1' in diameter,- inclosed at the base only in the thick 

 saucer-shaped cup with a slightly incurved rim and covered with closely appressed ovate 

 pale pubescent or nearly glabrous scales narrowed above the middle, abruptly long-pointed, 

 thin or often conspicuously tuberculate. 



A tree up to 120 high, with a tall trunk occasionally 5 in diameter, stout wide-spreading 

 branches forming a broad rather open head, and gray or grayish brown glabrous branchlets. 

 Winter-buds ovoid, acute or acuminate, about f long, with closely imbricated gray glabrous 

 or rarely pubescent scales. Bark I'-l J-' thick, ridged, broken into small appressed plates 

 scaly on the surface. Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, light reddish brown, often manu- 

 factured into lumber in the Mississippi valley and considered more valuable than that of 

 the northern Red Oak. 



Distribution. Borders of streams and swamps in moist rich soil ; coast region of Texas east- 

 ward from the Colorado River and ranging inland up the valley of that river to Burnet County, 

 southeastern Oklahoma, through Arkansas, southeastern Kansas and Missouri to Fayette 

 County, Iowa, southern Illinois and Indiana, the neighborhood of Columbus, Franklin 

 County, Ohio, and southeastern Michigan (near Portage Lake, Jackson County) ; through 

 the eastern Gulf States to western and central Florida and northward in the neighborhood 

 of the coast to the valley of the Neuse River, North Carolina; Chesapeake Beach, Calvert 

 County, Maryland (W. W. Ashe) ; ranging inland in the south Atlantic States to Rome, 

 Floyd County, Georgia, Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County, and Columbia, Richland County, 

 South Carolina, and Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. Passing into 



Quercus Shumardii var. Schneckii Sarg 



Quercus texana Sarg. in part, not Buckl. 



Quercus Schneckii Britt. 



Differing from the type in the deep cup-shaped cup of the fruit covered with thin scales, 

 rarely much thickened and tuberculate at base (only on river banks near Vicksburg, 



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