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surface, screven, bulloch, emanuel, tattnall, Mont- 

 gomery, APPLING, COFFEE, WILCOX, DOOLY, DECATUR. More 



common farther inland, particularly in Middle Georgia. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States south of 

 latitude 41 . 



Q. nigra L., Sp. PI. 995. 1753. (in part.) "Water Oak." 

 Q. aquatica [Lam.] Walt., Fl. Car. 234. 1788. 

 Chiefly in creek-swamps with Acer rubrum; not very common. 



SCREVEN, EMANUEL, TATTNALL, BERRIEN, DOOLY, COLQUITT, 



thomas. More common in the upper third of the coastal 

 plain, and in Middle Georgia. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States south of 

 latitude 39 . 



Q. brevifolia [Lam.] Sarg., Silva 8 : 171. pi. 431. 1893. 



Q. cinerea Mx. "Turkey Oak" (High-ground Willow Oak). 

 Sand-hills and dry pine-barrens throughout, usually with Q. 



Catesbcsi and almost as common. A small tree, rarely a 



foot in diameter. Ranges from the fall-line sand-hills al 



most to the coast. 

 North Carolina to central Florida and Texas, in the coastal 



plain. 



Q. laurifolia Mx., Hist. Chen. Am. pi. 17. 1801. "Water Oak." 

 The prevailing oak in hammocks and allied habitats screven , 



EMANUEL, TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, DODGE, COFFEE, WILCOX, 



berrien. Pretty widely distributed in South Georgia. 



Differs from its nearest relatives in being evergreen, like 



most hammock trees, and therefore unmistakable in winter. 



Virginia to central Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 



Leaf-anatomy discussed by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 



5:295. 1900. Both Kearney and Small speak of this 



species as deciduous, but it is decidedly evergreen in Georgia, 



and Croom found it so in North Carolina (Cat. PI. Newbern, 



47- i837-) 



Q. Phellos L., Sp. PI. 994. 1753. Willow Oak. 



Ocmulgee River swamp at Barrow's Bluff, coffee County, 

 May 14, 1904; and probably elsewhere in similar situations. 



