Handbook oii- Tkees of the Xoktiiekn States and Canada. 181 



The Live U.iU i- \\\r nin-l iimjc-^tio ain.l ini- 

 prussive Oak ut Uir Alhintic .^lates. Its lieight. 

 larely mure than ")i"l m' (iO ft., is not as I'e- 

 inarkable as it- uriMt •^[ucail of branches. It- 

 aiassive trunk is sdinct inios G or 8 ft. in dianiu- 

 Icr and u-nally dix iiJc- near tliu Ljronnd inln 

 ii few i^irat lir;i iK'lirs, wliicli sonicUnn.'.-- rracii 

 Mill liuri/iiiitally fn.mi Till tn TTi ft- — a Lircah-i 

 ili-lanre tlian tlm-e of any other America p 

 tri'C. \'isitor> tn thr coast re,uions of t he Soutli- 

 frii Statt'^i are a 1\\ ays iiinirc-i-rd with t hr-e 'jreai 

 ;iii:l licautiful 1 ii'r-. After cnnteiniihitinL' tluan 

 uiit' can li ually reali/.r thai the smne -iiciac- 

 ']< fun ml I in var. mi niiixi 1 un sainly ha rru li- 

 near tht' cost (if Florida as a shriih hrarini: 

 fruit wiien no mure than 1 ft. in Inai^ht. 



Our bark [licliire, while it shows nicely the 

 characteri-tic hji'k of the s]iecies, tell- also 

 the story of a long strn,y;i;le for exist laicc, 

 which the tree had had with a .ui.Liantie (i rape- 

 vine, ami ttie linal \ ictuiy uf the (.).\k. 



The waiod ^if the Live (.)ak. of which a cubic 

 fnut when absolutely d]\\' weiiihs ."i!t.21 Ib^.. 

 is so hard and difficult to wurk as nut to be 

 pN'tensively ir-^cd nnw-a-days. tliun'jh it wa- 

 nnce hi,i::hly valued for -liipdjnihlin.L: he fore 

 iron was snbsfitnted for that )inr[)osc. and 

 ('nn,eres-;, in its early sessions, enacteil law^ 

 fur perpetnatin;,^ thu supply. - 



Lran s pvnr^^ri'r'n. very t h 

 oliovati-'-olilancPolate t>> 'tninn;,', 

 apex and wedgp-sliap'Ml al- iia^ 

 lutp niaru-ins (rarelv sijiimsc 



■; ;hkI ciirinrcous, 



iiKisi I \- rdiimled a( 



Willi cntin' ri'VO- 



putalc ano\'(' tbe 



middle), shinin,™ dark urcai aiiove, wbitisb pnncs- 

 cpnt beneath, falling with flic apiiparMncp of new 

 leaves :r, the spi-inc:. rniil wiib lumsiuiily Inou' 

 peduncles 1-5 acorns to (■adi pcdnncli.' : acorn-^ 

 small lustrous dark Wr(]\vn. ovt.iid to o'lovuid and 

 onp-third covpvpd l.iy Hip tliiri tnrhinate boary- 

 tomentose cup wltb small apjiri'sypd scales: seed 



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1. Sya. Querciis virens Ait. 



2. A. W., V, 117. 



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