CUPULIFERAE 111 



Castanea pumila (L.) Mill. Chinquapin. 



A large shrub or small tree, similar to the chestnut except in 

 size, and in having the leaves pale beneath. Blooms in May. Too 

 small and scattered to be of any value for its wood, but the nuts 

 are edible, like those of the chestnut. It may be subject to some of 

 the same diseases as the chestnut, for large healthy specimens are 

 rare. 



Grows in dry woods ; widely distributed over the state, but 



nowhere common. 



2A. On Lookout Mountain ; rare. 



2B. Near Holt, Tuscaloosa County. 



4. Cedar Mountain, Clay County. 



6A. Near Tuscaloosa. 



6C. Greene, Perry, Autauga and Montgomery Counties. 



7. Hatcher's Bluff on Alabama River, Dallas County. 



8. Russell County. 



lOE. Dale and Coffee Counties, 

 low. Choctaw and Wilcox Counties. 

 11. Near Souwilpa, Choctaw County. 



13. Near Stockton and Silver Hill, Baldwin County, and in north- 

 eastern part of Mobile County. 



One or two other chinqtiapins, recently described, have Ijeen 

 credited to Alabama, but they are not well understood. 



QUERCUS, Linnaeus. Thi; Oaks. 



Alabama, like most other eastern states, has more species of 

 Qucrcus than of any other genus of trees (except Crataegus, the 

 haws, and most of those are recently described and doubtfully 

 distinct, and too small to interest a forester.) About thirty species 

 Slid a few varieties and hybrids have been credited to this state, 

 but the number cannot be given exactly, because a few of them are 

 not easily distinguished, and there are differences of opinion about 

 them. 



Most of our oaks are full-sized trees, large enough for saw 

 timber, but some are small and scrubby, and two or three shrubs. 

 Besides the true species several natural hybrids are known, these 

 being usually easily recognized by the fact that they are as a rule 

 solitary specimens growing in the immediate vicinity of the two 

 supposed parents and intermediate between them in nearly all 

 characters. No hybrids between the two great groups mentioned 

 in the next paragraph are known. 



