1918] SARGENT—QUERCUS 445 
Q. laurifolia. CatEsBy in his Natural History of Carolina describes 
and figures the live oak, and his specimen, which is preserved in the 
British Museum and of which Dr. Renpte has permitted me to see 
a leaf, is the thin-leaved form. Lrinnarus based his Q. Phellos 8 
(Spec. Pl. 994. 1753) on Caressy’s description and figure. There 
is no doubt therefore about Linnagus’ plant, which he considered 
a variety of the willow oak. PHrtirp MILLER in the eighth edition 
of his Dictionary, published in 1768, first gave the live oak a specific 
name, Q. virginiana. In his description he refers BANNISTER’S 
Q. sempervirens foliis oblongis non serratis to his species. This oak, 
however, is not included in BANNISTER’Ss list of Virginia plants 
published by Ray, and this quotation may mean that MILLER 
received from BANNISTER a specimen or seeds with this descriptive 
phrase. Unfortunately, MILLER’s specimen has not been pre- 
served ; but as it is possible that his only information in regard to the 
live oak came from BANNISTER, and as BANNISTER lived in Virginia, 
where so far as is now known the thick-leaved form does not occur, it ° 
is perhaps safe to assume that the type of Q. virginiana Miller is 
the thin-leaved form, that is, the form known to CaTEsby and the 
Q. Phellos 8 of LINNAEUS. 
A narrow-leaved shrubby form of the thick-leaved tree growing 
in the sandy soil of the Florida peninsula has been described by 
SMALL as Q. geminata, and if the thin- and thick-leaved forms of the 
live oak are considered varieties of one species the name of the 
thick-leaved tree becomes 
“ QUERCUS VIRGINIANA var. geminata, n. var.—Q. virginiana 
Sargent, Silva N.Am. 8:99 in part, pl. 395. fig. 3. 1895; Q. gemin- 
ata Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24:438. 1897.—Differing from the 
type in the more prominently reticulate-venulose leaves hoary- 
tomentose below, their margins conspicuously thickened and 
revolute. 
Sma describes the leaves of Q. geminata as mostly oblong-elliptic or 
oblong-obovate. Such shaped leaves are common on Florida specimens, but on 
the Carolina and Biloxi specimens the leaves are often broadly oblong-obovate 
and similar in shape to those of some of the common forms of Q. virginiana. 
The statement that the acorns of Q. geminata are always in pairs is not borne 
out in fact, as the fruit on specimens collected by Curtiss near Jacksonville, 
Florida (2597), is solitary, and on a number of specimens of his also from 
