450 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
In the central peninsula of Florida, especially after the forest 
floor has been burned, small plants of the thick-leaved live oak 
spread by underground stems into large thickets of small stems 
which often bear lanceolate or narrow obovate leaves acute or 
rounded at apex and entire or irregularly toothed with small apicu- 
late teeth. Some of these stems survive for many years and form 
a ring of smaller trees around the large central tree. The small 
plants in these clusters rarely produce fruit. In western Texas the 
live oak often spreads also by underground stems and forms clusters 
of considerable size. 
An abnormal shrubby form of the live oak, with fruit in many 
fruited spikes 9-10 cm. long was collected by G. V. Nasu in the 
vicinity of Eustis Lake, Lake County, Florida, April 1894 (no. 1762) 
and was distributed under the name of Quercus virens spicata 
Chapman. This name does not appear to have been published, and 
I have seen no other specimens like this no. 1762. 
HYBRID OAKS 
’ Quercus Hastingsii, n. hyb. (Q. marilandica X texana).— 
Leaves broadly obovate to ovate, rounded or abruptly cuneate 
‘at the wide base, 5-lobed halfway to the midrib by usually wide 
sinuses rounded in the bottom, the terminal lobe oblong, slightly 
3-lobed at apex, the upper lateral lobes wide and slightly 2-lobed or 
rounded and entire at apex, more than twice as large as the entire 
rounded or acute lower lobes; at maturity thin, lustrous and gla- 
brous on the upper surface, paler and glabrous on the lower surface, 
6-7 cm. long and 5-6 cm. wide, with pubescent midribs and con- 
spicuous axillary tufts of pale hairs; petioles slender, pubescent, 
10-12 mm. in length. Flowers and spring leaves not seen. Cup 
of the fruit turbinate, covered with broad loosely appressed scales, 
gradually narrowed and rounded at apex and hoary-tomentose 
except on the margins, those of the upper rank conspicuously 
ciliate; fruit not seen. 
A tree with a trunk 20 cm. in diameter, with branchlets thickly coated 
during the first season, with close pale tomentum, and small ovate pubescent 
winter buds. 
