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Q. Emoryi, Tort 4 . Dwarf Evergreen Oak. Leaves small, ever- 

 green, slightly lobed, acorns very small. A widely spread 

 shrubby evergreen oak in Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 and southward in Mexico. 



Q. fakata, Michx. Spanish Oak. Leaves oblong, rounded at 

 the base, three to five-lobed ; the lobes entire or sparingly 

 toothed at the apex, the terminal one commonly narrow and 

 elongated. Acorns about a half inch long, set in a cup enclos- 

 ing half of the roundish nut. A large tree, often sixty to seventy 

 feet high, and stem four feet in diameter. Wood dark-brown 

 or reddish, coarse-grained, decays rapidly when exposed to 

 moisture. Bark thick, rich in tannin, and often extensively 

 employed by tanners in making what is called "Oak-tanned 

 Leather." New Jersey, southward to Florida, and westward to 

 the Valley of the Mississippi. Very abundant in the Southern 

 States. 



Q. Garryana, Dougl. Western Oak. Leaves four to six inches 

 long, by two to five wide on stalks, a half to one inch long, 

 coarsely deeply cut-lobed ; lobes broad, obtuse, or sometimes 

 sharp- pointed, dull green above, beneath pale-yellowish, and 

 somewhat downy. Acorns sessile or on short stalks, one to 

 one and a half inches long, oval, in small and very shallow 

 cup. A large tree, seventy to a hundred feet high, and stem 

 three to four feet in diameter. Wood said to be coarse, hard, 

 and brittle. A common tree in the valleys north of San Fran- 

 cisco Bay, extending into Oregon and British Columbia. 



Q. Geor^iana, M. A. Curtis. Georgia Oak. Leaves three to 

 four inches long, very smooth, somewhat obovate, and wedge- 

 shaped at base, with deep or shallow sinuses, three to five-tri- 

 angular or obtuse lobes. Acorn a half inch long, oval or round- 

 ish, set in smooth cups, enclosing one third of the nut. A small 

 shrub, six to eight feet high, on Stone Mountain, Georgia. 



Q. hpterophylla, Michx. Bartram Oak. Dr. Engelmann places 

 this among the hybrid oaks, and intermediate between Q. Phel- 

 los and coccinea, but Decandolle considered it a variety of Q. 

 aquatica, which in some respects it certainly very much resem- 

 bles, especially in the sharp-pointed lobes of its leaves. The 

 original tree in the old Bartram Garden, Philadelphia, was 

 long since destroyed, and was only a small tree, some thirty feet 

 high at the time. But there are seedlings of it now twice that 

 bight, differing somewhat from the original. At best, we may 



