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head, and slender branchlets covered when they first appear with fascicled 
hairs and glabrous or nearly glabrous in the autumn; often a shrub not more 
than 2 m. tall. 
In dry sandy open woods, eastern Louisiana, near Springfield, Livingston 
Parish, R. S. Cocks and C. S. Sargent, March 27, 1917, R. S. Cocks, October 2, 
1917 (no. 4716, type); near Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, R. S. Cocks, 
October 2, 1917 (nos. 4720, 4726, shrubs); Pearl River, R. S. Cocks, October 2, 
1917 (nos. 4718, 4722, shrubs). 
In the texture of the leaves and their slightly revolute margins and incon- 
spicuous veins this variety resembles what is here considered the typical 
Q. virginiana, from which it differs in the small size of the leaves and fruit, in 
the pale nearly smooth bark, in the more glabrous branchlets, and in its smaller 
size. So far as I know, this variety has been found only at a few stations in 
eastern Louisiana and probably is not common. 
/ QUERCUS VIRGINIANA var. fusiformis, n. var.—Q. fusiformis 
Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 23:357. 1901.—Differing from the 
type in its smaller leaves and smaller size. The leaves are oblong to 
oblong-obovate, acute at apex, rounded or cuneate at base, entire, 
or occasionally dentate above the middle, coated below with pale 
pubescence, 2-2.5 cm. long and 8-10 mm. wide, with slightly 
thickened and revolute margins. Fruit smaller than in the type and 
as often short-oblong as fusiform. 
A shrub 1-4 m. high, with ridged horizontal or slightly ling branchlets 
densely tomentose or pubescent in their first season. 
Dry limestone ridges and flat topped hills of the Edwards Plateau, Texas; 
Lacey’s Ranch, near Kerrville, Kerr County, E. J. Palmer, June 10, 1917 (no. 
12224); “Devil’s Back Bone,” near Fischer’s Store, Coval County, E. J. 
Palmer, June 6, 1917 (no. 12202). 
This little live oak grows always in the neighborhood of larger trees of 
Q. virginiana, which it’ resembles in everything but in its dwarf habit and 
small leaves, due probably to th j i re it grows 
p y to the exposed “ bet situation where 3. 
Kew. 
QUERCUS VIRGINIANA var. DENTATA Chapman;Fl-qer. 1861.— 
Q. virginiana var. minima Sargent, Silva N.Am. 8:101, pl. 396. 
1895; Q. minima Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24:438. 1897.—This 
little oak, which is common in sterile pine barrens near the Florida 
coast and often bears large crops of fruit when not more than 3 dm. 
high, is distinct in the lower leaves, which are oblong-obovate, 
acute at the broad apex, coarsely repand-dentate with large 
triangular teeth, 7-10 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide, the upper leaves 
