248 HARPER 



TATTNALL, COFFEE (20jo), and BERRIEN. Doubtless grOWS 



in some of the other counties, but probably not in all, as it 

 seems to be confined to the lower half of the coastal plain, 

 like Cholisma ferruginea, Castanea alnifolia, and Sercnoa. 

 Fl. April. In coffee County it becomes as much as two 

 feet in diameter, and thirty feet tall. Its trunk is ascending 

 or curved, never strictly erect. 



Ranges mostly southward, but distribution not well worked 

 out. Until recently confused with Q. Virginiana. (See 

 Bull. Torrey Club 32 1465. 1905.) 

 Q. pumila Walt., Fl. Car. 234. 1788. " Oak Runner " 



Intermediate and dry pine-barrens ; not rare, scre ven (2089) , 



BULLOCH (905), TATTNALL, TELFAIR, APPLING, COFFEE (i^f), 

 IRWIN, BERRIEN, WORTH, COLQUITT, DECATUR. Fl. March. 



Common toward the coast, but apparently wanting in the 

 upper third of the coastal plain. 



North Carolina to Florida, in the pine-barrens. 

 Q. digitata [Marsh.] Sudw., Gard. & For. 5:98,99. 1892. (Span- 

 ish Oak.) "Red Oak." 



Dry pine-barrens. Noted only in coffee County, but doubt- 

 less occurs elsewhere in the region, where the Columbia 

 formation is thin or absent. Common farther inland, es- 

 pecially in Middle Georgia. 



Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States north 

 of latitude 30 . 

 Q. Catesbaei Mx., Hist. Chen. Am. pi. 29, 30. 1801. "Black 

 Jack." "Turkey Oak." 



On every sand-hill, and in dry pine-barrens ; abundant through- 

 out. Fl. March. Pretty widely distributed in South Geor- 

 gia, and seen also on the. rocky slopes of the Pine Mountains 

 (see Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 294. 1903). Usually a small tree 

 trunk rarely over a foot in diameter. 



North Carolina to central Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal 

 plain (with the exception above noted). 

 Q. Marylandica Muench., Hausv. 5 1253. 1770. "Dollar-leaf 

 Oak." "Black Jack." 



Dry pine-barrens, where the Lafayette loam 'is at or near the 



