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up to 4 mm. thick, stellate pubescent, often becoming glabrate or 
glabrous. Leaves above sparingly stellate pubescent, dark green 
and lucid; beneath, dull green, or pale and more or less densely 
close-stellate pubescent; dimorphous: those on y trees and 
the lower leaves on old trees relatively thin, broadly obovate, 6 by 
8 cm. to 10 by 13 cm., broadly cuneate or gradually contracted to 
the narrow rounded base, with 1 to 3 pairs of short spreading 
veins which deliquesce before reaching the thickened white mar- 
gin; midrib prominent, often arcuate; petiole 1.1 to 2.2 cm. long, 
sparingly stellate pubescent. Aments short, 2-2.5 cm. long, pubes- 
ent ruit in clusters of 2 to 4 on rather stout, closely gray- 
canescent peduncles 2 to 14 mm. long: cup 11 to 14 mm. wide, 8 
o mm. long, turbinate or somewhat contracted at the base, 
covered with many rows of ovate, gray-canescent, tightly ap-_ 
pressed scales with truncate tips and slightly tubercled bases; 
within, pale gray satiny canescent, with a small pale yellow hylum 
mark: nut ovate or oblong, 13 to 17 mm. long, 10 to 13 mm. thick, 
about one-third enclosed in the cup, strongly beaked, pale gray- 
canescent above the middle, dark brown when fresh, becoming tan 
upon drying, germinating soon after falling in October and early 
November. Buds ovate, obtuse or acutish, 2.5 to 4 mm. long, 
with 20 to 25 bright red-brown obtuse pubescent scales. 
Chico County, Arkansas, southward in the Mississipp! River 
TIE St. Landry Parish, La. Specimens examined, all 
Arkansas: 
Chico Co., north of Lake Village; Apr. and Nov., 1930. East 
of Portland; Apr. and Nov., 1930. 
Louisiana: 
Richland Parish; Nov. 27, 1930 (type). 
Frei lands of Ouachita ke uu Parish, Nov. 28, 
Near Palmetto, St. Landry Parish, Nov. 29, 1930. 
Near Ritto, Ouachita Parish, La., Nov. 28, 1930. 
Near Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, Nov. 27, 1930. 
West of Forest, West Carroll Parish, Nov. 27, 1930. 
Near Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Nov. 28, 1930. 
This is one of the common oaks on the intermediate or better 
