1918] SARGENT—QUERCUS 457 
oval to oblong-ovate, abruptly pointed, light chestnut brown, 
about 2.5 cm. long and 1.5-1.8 cm. in diameter, inclosed for two- 
thirds or three-quarters of their length in the thin deep cup-shaped 
cup, the scales all thin, broadly ovate, narrowed and abruptly short- 
pointed at apex, pale pubescent, their tips free, those of the upper 
ranks forming a serrate rim to the cup. 
A tree sometimes 35 m. high, with a tall straight trunk 1-1. 5 m. in diame- 
ter, covered with deeply furrowed dark red-brown bark, erect and spreading 
branches forming a broad head, and slender branchlets sparingly pubescent 
when they first appear, and glabrous, lustrous, and light reddish brown at 
the end of their first season. Winter buds ovate-oblong, acute, about 0.05 
cm. in length, their scales light chestnut brown, puberulous. 
Duncan Park, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, Miss C. C. Compton 
and C. S. shit ie (no. 1, type), April 17, 1915, Miss Compton, November 1915. 
ALABAMA.—Near an abandoned house in sandy soil 30 miles west of Selma, 
Dallas Count, T. G. Harbison (no. 10), April 20 and October 21, 1915. 
Lovutstana.—Audubon Park ane streets of New Orleans, R S. Cocks, 
October ror. 
TExas.—Banks of Peyton’ s Creek, Matagorda County, C. Mohr, Decem- 
ber 18, 1880. 
Specimens of this tree appear to have been first collected by Dr. Mour in 
Texas. These specimens were referred by me in The Silva of North America 
to Q. lyrata, with the statement that these were the only acorns of Q. /yraia I 
had seen with cups inclosing only one-half or two-thirds of the nut. The 
Texas tree or trees have probably disappeared, as E. J. Palmer has failed to find 
them in a careful search along both banks of Peyton’s Creek from source to 
mouth. I first saw this tree in Duncan Park, Natchez, on the estate of the late 
Dr. STEPHEN Duncan, where there is a large specimen in the rear and not far 
from the Duncan mansion. Later Miss Compron succeeded in locating 20 
or 30 of these trees in Natchez and its neighborhood. They are all large trees 
in the neighborhood of dwellings with the exception of two seedlings growing 
in the woods near the city. The largest and handsomest of these trees which 
T have seen is growing in the garden of St. Joseph’s School, on State Street, 
Natchez. Another very large tree is standing in ‘‘ Magnolia Vale” under 
the bluff at Natchez. The trees in New Orleans which are not large are 
said to have been brought from across Lake Pontchartrain 30 or 40 years 
ago, but Professor Cocks, who has carefully searched for this oak, has failed 
to find any trees in Louisiana with the exception of those planted in New 
Orleans. The Texas trees seen by Mour may have been growing naturally 
in the woods, but all the others now known, with the exception of the 
two or three young trees which have sprung up naturally in the woods 
near Natchez, are evidently trees that have been planted. I am inclined 
