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Fig. 33. Branch of Oiicrcus Arkaiisana 

 flowers. March 27, 1913. 



( ? ) , with young leaves and 



Qucrcus Arkaiisaiia was originally described by Prof. Sar- 

 gent* from Hempstead County. Arkansas. At the same time he 

 mentioned a specimen of what appeared to be the same thing col- 

 lected by Dr. Mohr on July 4, 1880, on the wooded banks of the 

 Conecuh River in Conecuh County, Ala. [but the Conecuh River 

 does not touch Conecuh County ! ] . My first specimens were col- 

 lected in the "pocosin," a few miles east of Troy, on Nov. 6, 1913, 

 and a trunk of one of the trees, photographed the following spring 

 (March 2T, 1913), was figured in the Bulletin of the Torreya 

 Botanical Club 41:315, May, 1914. In January, 1920, Mr. J. O. 

 Veatch found what is evidently the same thing in sandy hammocks 

 in the southern part of Okaloosa County, Florida. In 1923 Mr. 

 Ashe described his Q. Caput-rivuli, from West Florida, supposing 

 it to be distinct from Q. Arkaiisana, but making no reference to 

 my Alabama specimens. The specimens from east and west of the 

 Mississippi River, with a gap of several hundred miles between 

 them, seem to differ slightly, Q. Arkaiisana as originally figured 

 having larger acorns than the Alabama tree ; but for the present it 

 seems best to treat them as all one species. 



*Trees and Shrubs, 2:121-122, pi. 152. 1911. 



