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The published records of the distribution are as follows: Car; 
roll (Thompson); Cass (Benedict and Elrod); Clark (Baird and 
Taylor); Delaware (Phinney); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne 
(Phinney); Fountain (Brown); Franklin (Haymond) and (Meyncke); 
Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton (Wilson); Jay (M’Caslin); Jefferson 
(Coulter); Knox (Ridgway); Kosciusko (Clark); Marion (Wilson); 
Miami (Gorby); Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey 
(Schneck); Putnam (Wilson); Steuben (Bradner); Vigo (Blatchley) ; 
Wabash (Benedict and Elrod). 
Additional records are: Jefferson (Clapp); Posey (MacDougal 
and Wright); Putnam (Grimes); Tippecanoe (Coulter) and (Dor- 
ner); Blackford, Delaware, Gibson, Knox, Laporte, Posey, Starke, 
Vermillion and Wells (Deam). 
Economic uses. Wood and uses similar to that of the white oak. 
5. Quercus bicolor Willdenow. Swamp Waite Oak. Plate 48. 
Bark on the trunk deeply and irregularly fissured, sometimes on 
old trees separating and curling up at the side into long plates, 
which seldom fall off, gray or reddish-brown; branchlets green, 
shightly pubescent when they appear, becoming glabrous and a 
purplish-brown by the end of the year; winter buds ovoid, blunt, 
brown, about 3 mm. (14 inch) long, scales somewhat hairy, leaves 
on petioles 5-20 mm. (14-7 inch) long, obovate to oblong-obovate, 
0.7-2 dm. (3-8 inches) long, rounded or pointed at the apex, wedge- 
shaped or narrowly rounded at the base, coarsely round toothed or 
somewhat pinnatifid, teeth glandular tipped, primary veins run- 
ning to the points of the teeth, bronze-green and hairy on both sur- 
faces when they unfold, at maturity becoming thick, dark green, 
smooth and shiny above, whitish with woolly hairs beneath; acorns 
usually in pairs on stalks 2.5-8 em. (1-3 inches) long; nut ovoid, 
2-2.5 em. (24-11 inches) long, somewhat hairy near the summit, 
inclosed for fully one third its length in the shallow cup-shaped 
cup which is pubescent within; scales acute, closcly appressed ex- 
cept the tips which sometimes form a fringe-like border at the top, 
scurfy pubescent and frequently tuberculate; kernel sweetish. 
Distribution Maine to Michigan and eastern Iowa, south to 
Florida and west to Texas. Frequent throughout Indiana in wet 
woods, usually associated with the burr oak from which it is not 
commonly separated. It grows to be a large tree, although as a 
rule not quite so large as the burr oak. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Car- 
roll (Thompson); Cass (Coulter); Clark (Baird and Taylor) and 
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