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Warren County, Mississippi), and connected with it by forms with the cups of the fruit dif- 

 fering from saucer to deep cup-shaped. 



Distribution. Growing with Qucrcus Shumardii; more common in Texas and in the 

 Mississippi valley than the type, and ranging eastward through Louisiana and Mississippi 

 to central and southern Alabama, central and southeastern Tennessee (neighborhood of 

 Chattanooga), and central Kentucky; apparently not reaching the Atlantic States. 



3. Quercus texana Buckl. 



Leaves widest above the middle, broad-cuneate, concave-cuneate or nearly truncate at 

 base, deeply or rarely only slightly divided by broad sinuses rounded in the bottom into 5 or 7 

 lobes, the terminal lobe 3-lobed and acute at apex, the upper lateral lobes broad and more 

 or less divided at apex and much larger and more deeply lobed than those of the lowest 

 pair, when they unfold densely covered with fascicled hairs and often bright red, soon gla- 

 brous, thin, dark green and lustrous above, pale and lustrous and rarely furnished below 



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with small inconspicuous axillary tufts of pale hairs, 3'-3' long, 2|'-3' wide, with a thin 

 midrib and slender primary veins running to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, soon 

 glabrous, \'-\\' in length. Flowers: staminate in slender villose aments 3'-4' long; calyx 

 thin, villose on the outer surface, divided into 4 or 5 acute lobes shorter than the stamens; 

 pistillate on short hoary tomentose peduncles, their involucral scales brown tinged with 

 red; stigmas bright red. Fruit short-stalked, usually solitary; nut ovoid, narrowed and 

 rounded at apex, light red-brown, often striate, |'-f long and broad, sometimes acute, 

 nearly 1' in length and not more than \' in diameter; cup turbinate, covered with thin 

 ovate acuminate slightly appressed glabrous scales, in the small fruit of trees on dry hills 

 inclosing a third or more of the nut, in the larger fruit of trees on better soil comparatively 

 less deep. 



A tree on dry hills rarely more than 30 tall, with a trunk 8'-10' in diameter, small spreading 

 or erect branches and slender red or reddish brown glabrous or rarely pubescent branchlets; 

 often a shrub; on better soil at the foot of hills occasionally 50 high with a trunk 12'- 

 18' in diameter. Winter-buds ovoid, acute, \'-\ r long and covered with closely imbri- 

 cated acute slightly or densely pubescent red scales. Bark light brown tinged with red, 

 f '-!' thick, deeply ridged and broken into plate-like scales. 



Distribution. Dry limestone hills and ridges, and in the more fertile soil at their base; 

 central and western Texas (Dallas, Tarrant County to Travis and Bexar Counties), and 

 to the Edwards Plateau (San Saba, Kerr, Brown, Coke and Uvalde Counties) ; westward 



