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70. Quercus Michauxii Nutt. 



Cow-oak. A lowland species of the southeastern part of the State, where it 

 attains a great height and corresponding girth, and Is very valuable for lumber. It 

 occurs In Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, New M.adrid and Stoddard 

 counties. 



71. Quercus minor (Marsh.) Sargent. 



Post-oak A very valuable small-sized tree, reaching its greatest development, 

 in and about the Ozark region, where In some places it and the Black-jack oak are 

 the only oaks present. Appears to be absent or very scarce in the northwestern 

 part of the State, as may be seen from the following list of counties, for at present 

 it is known to occur in Adair, Atchison, Barton, Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, 

 Carter, Cedar, Christian, Clark, Dunklin, Greene, Henry, Howard, Howell, Jack- 

 son, Jasper, Jeflferson, Lawrence, Livingston, Madison, McDonald, Newton, Oie- 

 gon, Ripley, Shannon, St. Francois, St. Louis, Texas, Wayne, Webster and 

 Wright connties. This is Quercus stellata Wang. 



72. Quercus MuMenbergii Engelm. 



Chinquapin-oak. A valuable small-sized tree with very hard wood and edible- 

 nuts. Very well known and distributed throughout the State in dry or rocky 

 ground, and is often called Yellow-oak from the yellow inner wood, and Sweet- 

 oak from the edible acorns. It has been found in Andrew, Atchison, Bollinger, 

 Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Carter, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Dade, Dunklin, 

 Greene, Holt, Howard, Howell, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, 

 McDonald, New Madrid, Newton, Oregon. Pike, Platte, Ray, Shannon, St. Fran- 

 cois, St. Louis, Texas, Washington and Wayne counties. Broadhead reported 

 Quercus Prinus from Adair county, and Swallow reported it also from Mississippi 

 county, but the Chinquapin-oak was evidently what they had under considera- 

 tion. 



73. Quercus nigra L. 



Blackjack oak. A small-Sized tree of little value, reaching its greatest devel- 

 opment in the Ozark region, where it is in' the greatest abundance. Its range is 

 principally, if not entirely, south of the Missouri river, as I have never seen it 

 north of it. It is known to grow in Barton, Bollinger, Carter, Christian, Dunklin, 

 Greene, Howell, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Oregon, 

 Shannon, St. Francois, St. Louis, Texas, Washington, Webster and Wright 

 counties. Broadhead reported it from Adair and Nodaway counties, but probably 

 erroneously, and Pech is said to have collected it in Pike county. 



74. Quercus palustris Du Eoi. 



Pin-oak. A common species in low land and swampy places, having a range 

 south and east of a line drawn from the northeastern part of the State to the 

 mouthof the Kansas river; apparently absent from the northwestern part of the 

 State. It is found in Adair, Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Clark, Dunklin, 

 Greene, Howard, Howell, Jackson, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Pike, 

 Ray, Shannon, St. Louis, Stoddard, Sullivan and Wayne counties. Commonly 

 called Turkey-oak in the Ozark region, but this name belongs to Quercus Cateabcei. 



75. Quercus Phellos L. 



Willowoak. A very valuable tree of the lowlands of the southeastern part of 

 the State, -where it is extensively manufactured into lumber and car-timber. It 



