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of Indian River and Peace Creek, Florida, and westward to eastern Louisiana; compara- 

 tively rare toward the western limits of its range, and most abundant and of its largest 

 size on the high bluff-like shores of bays and estuaries in South Carolina and Georgia; the 

 prevailing tree with Quercus cinerea in the flat woods of the interior of the Florida penin- 

 sula as far south as the sandy ridges in the neighborhood of Lake Istokpoga, De Soto 

 County. 



X Quercus Mellichampii Trel. believed to be a hybrid of Quercus Catesbcei and Q. lauri- 

 folia occurs at Bluffton on the coast of South Carolina, in the neighborhood of Orlando, 

 Orange County and near San Mateo, Putnam County, Florida. 



X Quercus Ashei Trel. believed to be a hybrid of Quercus Catesbcei with Q. cinerea occurs 

 at Folkston and near Trader's Hill, Charleton County and St. Mary's, Camden County, 

 Georgia. 



X Quercus blufftonensis Trel., a probable hybrid of Quercus Catesbcei and Q. rubra L., 

 has been found at Bluffton, South Carolina. 



X Quercus Walteriana Ashe, believed to be a hybrid of Quercus Catesbaei and Q. nigra, 

 is not rare in the immediate neighborhood of the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, 

 and occurs on sand hills in Sampson County, North Carolina, near Jacksonville, Duval 

 County, Florida, at Mount Vernon, Mobile County and in the neighborhood of Selma. 

 Dallas County, Alabama. 



11. Quercus ilicifolia Wang. Bear Oak. Scrub Oak. 



Quercus nana Sarg. 



Leaves obovate or rarely oblong, gradually or abruptly cuneate at base, divided by 

 wide shallow sinuses into 3-7, usually 5, acute lobes, the terminal lobe ovate, elongated, 

 rounded and 3-toothed or acute and dentate or entire at apex, the lateral lobes spreading, 



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mostly triangular and acute, or those of the upper pair broad, oblique and repand-lobu- 

 late or broad at apex, slightly 3-lobed and entire below, or deeply 3-lobed above and sinu- 

 ate below, or occasionally oblong to oblong-obovate and entire, with undulate margins, 

 when they unfold dull red and puberulous or pubescent on the upper surface and coated 

 on the lower and on the petioles with thick pale tomentum, with conspicuous tufts of sil- 

 very white hairs in the axils of the veins, at maturity thick and firm, dark green and lustrous 

 above, covered below with pale or silvery white pubescence, 2'-5' long, l|'-3' wide, 



