114 FXOXOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Quercus Margaretta, Ashe. (Sand-hill) Post Oak. 



Similar to Quercus sfcllafa, and perhaps only a variety of it 

 (as it was originally descrihed. and is still regarded by some 

 authors), but differs in being smaller, with trunk usually not more 

 than si.x or eight inches in diameter, and having paler and smaller 

 and less deeply lobed leaves. Too small to be of any economic 

 importance. 



Grows usually in dry .sandy soils, with long-leaf pine, in the 



coastal plain. 



6B. Occasional, from a little west of the Warrior River to Elmore 

 County. 



7. Common in a sandy area near the Alabama River opposite Selma. 

 lOE. Pike, Coffee and Dale Counties, especially the latter. 



12. Geneva County. 



13. Occasional as far south as Bav Minette. Rare west of the Mobile 

 delta. 



A single sturdy specimen of Quercus luacrocarpa, Mx. (bur 

 oak), fruiting abundantly, was pointed out to me by Mr. J. Hay- 

 good Paterson, in October. 1927, in a calcareous field or pasture in 

 the l)lack belt about a mile and a half northwest of Snowdoun, 

 Montgomery Co. Its principal range is the upper Mississippi Val- 

 ley and east to New York and south to Texas, and it is not sup- 

 posed to grow naturally in Alabama at all. But the environment 

 of this specimen is much like that of many in Illinois and adjoining 

 states at the present time, and it is barely possible that it is indigen- 

 ous, as the pecans in the same belt farther west (mentioned on a 

 preceding page) are supposed to be. If a few other trees could 

 be found the case would be much stronger. 



Quercus lyrata, Walt. Swamp Post Oak. (Overcup Oak.) 



This tree looks much like the common post oak in winter, but 

 is usually larger, with leaves smooth and green on both sides (or 

 occasionally whitish beneath) and differently shaped, and its acorns 

 are considerably larger, and differ from those of all our other 

 oaks in being usually almost completely enclosed in their cups, so 

 that they cannot fall out. 



Occasionally cultivated for ornament or shade. Its wood is 

 much like that of the white and post oaks, and may be occasionally 

 marketed with them, but there is not enough of it to be of much 

 commercial im])ortance. 



