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exceeds the height of four feet, but bear abun- 

 dance of acorns. 



B. The chemut-leaved oaks ought to stand nearest 

 to the white oak, having a similar bark. Q^ alba 

 palustris is the intermediate species. 



4. Quercus Castanea mihi. Resembles the 

 former, and when growing in a moist soil, is 

 often scarcely to be distinguished from it ; but 

 in a dry one it approaches more to (X prinus, 

 and from Miller's and Wangenheim's de- 

 scriptions, I suspect it to have been considered as 

 a mere variety of the latter. Its cups are sessile.* 



5. §>uercus prinus humilis Marshall. Is per- 

 haps only a variety of the former, with an abun- 

 dance of small fruit. f 



6. £>uerciis prinus is very well known j it grows 

 on dry ground in company with Fagus Castanea. 

 The acorns are of the largest kind, and fall off 



* Quercus Castanea: foliis oblongo lanceolatii acuminatissubtus tomen- 

 to»is, grosse dentatis, dentibus subxqualibus dilatitis apicc callosis. \V. 

 Appears to be Quercus Prinus var. palustris of Mhbaux, n.5. pi. 6. 



•f A new species, different both from the last and the following. I 

 call it 



^uercus prinoides : foliis obovatis obtusis glabris, grosse dentatis, denti- 

 bus subsqualibus dilatatis apicc callosis. W. Michaux considers it at 

 a variety of 0^_Prinus : Querg. Pumila n. 5. pi. 9. T. 



