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brous the second year. Leaves deciduous, oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, rarely obovate, obtuse or acute at each end, 2 to 3.5 cm. 

 long, 0.7 to 1.8 cm. wide, grayish green as they unfold, dark 

 green when mature, turning dark crimson after frost, permanently 

 soft gray pubescent beneath, entire, apiculate, sessile or nearly so. 

 Racemes, axillary or terminating the short branchlets, i to 2.5 

 cm. long, 4- to 7-flowered, pubescent. Flowers appearing the 

 last week in April or early in May, when the leaves are about 

 one half grown, cylindrous, 7-8 mm. long, pale greenish-yellow, 

 striped especially in the bud with red, nodding on short pedicels; 

 calyx lobes short, turning red after corolla falls. Fruit black 

 and shining, about 6 mm. thick, ripens in July after that of V. 

 vacillans Sol. Flowers appear 10 days after those of V. vacillans, 

 with which it grows in rosemary, pine, and mixed oak woodland 

 at altitudes of 450-600 m. in the mountains of Georgia and South 

 Carolina where locally abundant. W. W. A., Oconee Co., S. C, 

 May, 1912; Rabun Co., Ga., July, 1912; May 10, 1917; October 

 I, 1917. Representative specimens are deposited in U. S. 

 National Herbarium; Field Columbian Museum; Charleston, 

 S. C, Museum; Pittsburgh Museum; and Herbarium of Columbia 

 University. 



I have recently (Bui. Charl. Mus. 13:26, April, 1917) noted 

 noted that the name Quercus pagoda Raf.* should replace that 

 of Q. pagodaefolia (Ell.) Ashe.f A change also seems necessary 

 in the case of the combination Quercus hybrida which I lately 

 discussed (Proc. Soc. Am. For. 11, i, 89, 1916) as referring to the 

 oak described by Michaux (Ch. 10, pi. 18, 1801) in case this 

 form is held as of specific rank, which in my opinion it should be. 

 The correct name of this tree appears to be: 



Quercus obtMsa (Willd.) n. comb. 



The synonymy is as follows: 

 Q. laurifolia hybrida Mx. Ch. 10, pi. 18 (1801), not Q. hybrida 



Houba Chen. L' Am. Sept. 200 t. (1887). 

 Q. laurifolia B. obtusa Willd. Sp. PI. 4. P- i- 428 (1809). 



* Alsogr. Am. 23 (1838). 

 t N. C. Handbook (1896). 



