1918] SARGENT—QUERCUS 449 
being oblong-lanceolate and entire. The fruit is usually larger, 
with shorter peduncles than on large trees. 
QUERCUS VIRGINIANA var. MARITIMA Sargent, Silva N.Am. 
9:100. 1895.—Q. virens (maritima) Michx. Hist. Chénes Amér., 
No. 7, pl. 13. fig. 3. 1801; Q. virens var. maritima Chapman, 
Fl. 421. 1860.—Leaves oblong-obovate to rarely lanceolate, acute 
and apiculate or rounded at apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate 
at base, entire or slightly and irregularly toothed above the middle, 
5-8 cm. long and 1-1.5 cm. wide. Fruit solitary or in pairs, on 
peduncles 1-5 cm. in length. A shrub often not more than 
2 dm. tall. 
Dry sandy barrens, coast of South Carolina to Miami, Dade County, 
Florida. Q. succulenta Small (Fl. Southeastern U.S. ed. 2, 1332) from Dade 
County, Florida, appears to be a form of the var. maritima with the fruit in 
elongated spikes. 
’ QUERCUS VIRGINIANA var. PYGMAEA, n. var.— Differing from the 
type in the usually 3-lobed leaves and in its smaller size. Leaves 
oblong-ovate, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, 
3- Or occasionally 5-lobed at apex with small acute lobes, or rarely 
elliptic and entire, glabrous on the upper surface, slightly pubescent 
at maturity on the lower surface, 3.5-6 cm. long and 2-2. 5 cm.. 
wide, with thin slightly revolute margins and i i veinlets; 
petioles 4-5 mm. in length, pubescent. Fruit nearly sessile or 
raised on short peduncles, the nut 1-1.5 cm. long and inclosed 
nearly to the apex. A shrub rarely more than 1 m. tall, with 
reddish brown stems and puberulous branchlets. 
FLorma.—Pine woods in sandy soil, Zellwood, Orange County, C. H. Baker, 
August 1915 (type); dry river banks near Jacksonville, Duval County, A. H. 
Curtiss, November 1893 (without number); Sanford, Seminole County, C. S. 
Sargent, April 4, 1886; Sopchoppy, Wakulla County, W. M. Canby, April 3, 
1895; vicinity of Fort Myers, Lee County, Jeanette P. Standley, June 26, 1916 
(no. 289, with smaller thin leaves hoary-tomentose on the lower surface; per- 
haps another form). 
Grorcia.—Sandy soil near the coast, Brunswick, Glynn County, T. G. 
Harbison, November 3, 1913 (no. 32, with smaller fruit and shallower cups). 
This variety appears to have been usually confused with var. dentata, but 
from that variety it differs in the absence of the large, many lobed leaves at 
the base of the stems and in the smaller fruit. 
