1918] SARGENT—QUERCUS 451 
TExas.—Near Boerne, Kendall County, S. H. Hastings, October 1910 
(type); Woods along small creek, Brownwood, Brown County, E. J. Palmer, 
October 18, 1917 (no. 13 056, with branchlets becoming nearly glabrous). 
In shape the leaves of this tree differ from those of Q. texana in the 
shallower sinuses and in the less deeply divided terminal lobe, but, with the 
exception of the pubescence along the midribs and on the veins, most resemble 
the leaves of that species although they have conspicuous axillary tufts. The 
influence of Q. marilandica is seen in the broad tomentose scales of the cup, 
in the tomentose branchlets, and in the short tomentose winter buds. 
I take much pleasure in associating with this interesting tree the name of 
its discoverer, S. H. Hastrncs, for many years at the head of the United States 
Agricultural Experiment Station at San Antonio, Texas. 
“ Quercus beaumontiana, n. hyb. (Q. rhombica Xrubra).—Leaves 
rhombic to oblong or oblong-obovate, acute at the ends, entire 
or undulate, and at the ends of the branchlets, deeply 3-lobed at 
apex with acuminate lobes and undulate and occasionally slightly ' 
lobed below; at maturity thin, smooth, and glabrous on the upper 
surface, sparingly pubescent on the lower surface, those with 
undulate or obscurely lobed margins 7-8 cm. long and 3-4 cm. 
wide, the terminal lobed leaves g-12 cm. long and 5-7 cm. wide 
across the lobes; petioles slender, glabrous, 1-2.5 cm. in length. 
The fruit is that of Q. rhombica. 
A tree with glabrous branchlets and oblong-ovate glabrous winter buds. 
A single tree growing in a row of trees on a street leading out to Magnolia 
Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, and probably transplanted 
from woods in the neighborhood, E. J. Palmer (no. 12748, type). Another tree 
growing on a street west of Beaumont with undulate leaves coated below 
with pale pubescence as they unfold and glabrous branchlets is possibly the 
same hybrid (C. S. Sargent, April 11, 1915). 
Quercus Metiicuampr Trelease, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 56:50. 
1917 (Q. Catesbaei Xlaurifolia) (nomen nudum).—To an oak which 
was found many years ago on a sandy ridge by J. H. Mellichamp 
near Bluffton, South Carolina (see SARGENT, Silva N.Am. 8:144. 
pl. 419), TRELEASE has given the name of its discoverer. This oak, 
as ENGELMANN pointed out long ago, has every evidence of being a 
hybrid between Q. Catesbaei Michx. and Q. laurifolia Michx. 
Trees which are evidently the result of the same cross are not rare in San 
Mateo, Putnam County, Florida, and in the neighborhood of Orlando, Orange 
County, Florida, where several trees of this hybrid growing in the woods in 
