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Industry Bull. 8!)), but possibly it was confused with Q. falcata or 



Q. vclntina. The tree is sometimes planted for shade, especially 



in the North. 



Grows mostly in rich woods on cool shady slopes, not often 



burned over. When acorns were not available and I was traveling 



rapidly I may have sometimes confused it with Q. vclutina or Q. 



Schncckii, but its distribution in Alabama seems to be about as 



follows : 



lA. Hills near Riverton and south of Mussel Shoals, Colbert County. 

 2A. Lookout Mountain (Mohr). Blount and St. Clair Counties. 

 2B. Occasional in ravines. 



3. DeKalb and Talladega Counties. 



4. Lower slopes of mountains, Clay County. 



5. Randolph, Chilton, Tallapoosa, and doubtless other counties. 

 6A. Scattered throughout. 



7. Dallas County (Cocks). 



lOE. Coffee, Dale and Covington Counties. 



low. Sumter, Choctaw, Monroe and Butler Counties. 



11. Choctaw and Clarke Counties. 



Quercus Schncckii, Britton. (Red Oak?) 



A tree somewhat intermediate between the preceding and the 

 following species, and liable to the confused with one or the other 

 in winter, or when one does not have time to examine closely, and I 

 am not sure that I have always identified it correctly. It is also 

 very closely related to Q. Texana and Q. Shttniardii, which were 

 originally described from Texas by Buckley.* 



Grows mostly in calcareous soils, dry or damp, in fairly dense 



woods. 



IB. Jackson, Madison, Morgan and Franklin Counties. 

 3. Etowah, St. Clair, Jefferson, Shelby, and probably most of the 

 other counties. 



7. Sumter, Greene, Hale, Dallas, Autauga, Montgomery and Macon 

 Counties. 



8. Dallas and Barbour Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 



lOE. Dale County (perhaps Q. coccinca?) 

 low. Marengo, Wilcox and Monroe Counties. 



11. Clarke and Monroe Counties. 



12. Near a limestone cave in southeastern corner of Covington County. 



Quercus coccinea, Wang. Spanish Oak. (Scarlet Oak 

 of the books) 



A neat-looking tree of medium size, with smoothish bark, 

 and deeply lobed leaves which turn bright red in fall. Probably 

 not well known or often used for any specific purpose in Alabama, 

 but it makes a pretty shade-tree, if nothing else. 



*See Sargent, Bot. Gaz. 65:424-426. 1918. 



