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natural haljitats. Its distril)Ution in Alal)ama is rather limited, as 

 follows : 



12. Edge of ricli woods around a limestone cave in the southeastern 

 part of Covington County. (Could probably be found also in Geneva and 

 Houston. ) 



13. Around ponds a little south of Bay Minette. 



15. Shores of Mobile Bay and connecting waters, near Coden, Daphne, 

 Point Clear, Bon Secour, etc. (Doubtless also on the islands.) 



Quercus geminata, Small. (Dwarf, or Scrub) Live Oak. 



Differs from the preceding in beitig much smaller, sometimes 

 hardly more than a shrub, with stiffer leaves strongly concave and 

 white-woolly beneath. Althotigh it is convenient to call it a distinct 

 species, it might be m.ore logical to treat it as a variety.* It is too 

 small and scarce in Alabama to be of any importance. 



Grows in sterile sandy soils, where fire is rather infrequent. 



12. Dry sand along Double Bridges Creek and Pea River near Geneva. 



13. Sandy places near the Mobile delta, in Washington and -Mobile 

 Counties. Southeast of Foley, Baldwin County. 



15. Old dunes south of Orange Beach, Baldwin County (and doubt- 

 less on the islands of ]Mobile County, which I have not visited). 



Quercus minima, Small. (Q. zirciis dcutata. Chapm.) 



A shrub, ustially not more than knee-high, with tough ever- 

 green leaves something like those of Q. J^irgiiiicnia, but obscurely 

 toothed, suggesting holly leaves. 



This is common in the flat pine woods of Florida, but I have 



seen it only once in Alabama, in low pine lands near Fish River, 



between Silver Hill and Fairhope, Baldwin County. 



Dr. Mohr reports Quercus Firgiiiiana marit'uua (Mx.) Sargent from 

 Xavy Cove, Mobile County. That is a variety I have never identified, but it 

 may be only a larger form of the preceding: or possibly he mistook Q. 

 geiiiiiiata (which was not described until 1897) for it.f 



*For a discussion of the differences between our live oaks see Sargent, 

 Bot. Gaz. 65:443-446. 1918. 



tSee Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 32 :465. 1905. 



