ALTAMAHA GRIT REGION OF GEORGIA 247 



CUPULIFERiE. 

 QUERCUS L., Sp. PL 994. 1753. Oaks. 

 Q. alba L., Sp. PL 996. 1753. White Oak. 



Rather rare in our territory. Usually on bluffs with Poly- 

 stichum acrostichoides (see Fern Bull. 13 : 13. 1905). Mont- 

 gomery: Along Oconee River near Mount Vernon and 

 Ochwalkee; coffee: Barrow's Bluff; dooly: Around the 

 Rock House. More common farther inland, particularly 

 toward the mountains. 

 Throughout the Eastern United States north of latitude 29 . 



Q. minor [Marsh.] Sarg., Gard. & For. 2 '.471. 1889. Post Oak. 

 Montgomery: Stallings' Bluff, June 29, 1903. More common 

 farther inland, like the preceding, and having nearly the 

 same range. 

 Q. Margaretta Ashe. "Post Oak." 



Sand-hills, oak ridges, etc. ; common. Ranges nearly all over 



South Georgia. 

 North Carolina to Florida and Alabama, in the coastal plain. 

 Q. lyrata Walt., Fl. Car. 235. 1788. (Post Oak.) 



Only in swamps of rivers which rise north of our territory; 

 usually with Ilex decidua. bulloch: Ogeechee River; 

 emanuel: Little Ohoopee River; Montgomery: Oconee 

 River; telfair: Ocmulgee River. More common in the 

 upper third of the coastal plain. Extends sparingly inland 

 to Columbia, Gwinnett (Small), and Carroll Counties, and 

 down the Altamaha to Mcintosh. 

 North Carolina to Florida (?), Missouri, and Texas, mostly 

 m the coastal plain. 

 Q. Michauxii Nutt., Gen. 2 1215. 1818. 



Noted in our territory at each of the same places as the pre- 

 ceding, and on the same dates. Its general distribution in 

 Georgia and elsewhere is much the same, except that it 

 seems to range a little farther north. 

 Q. geminata Small, Bull. Torrey Club 24:438. 1897. "Live 

 Oak." 

 Sand-hills, hammocks, etc. Noted at several stations in 



