LXX. CORYLA‘CER: QUE’RCUS. 872 
1590. Q. palastris. 
The wood is coarse-grained, and resembles that of the red oak. In the cli- 
mate of London, the tree is remarkably hardy, and its rate of growth is much 
more rapid than that of every other American oak, unless we except Q. am- 
bigua, which is very rarely to be met with. This may be rendered obvious 
at a glance, by inspecting the line of oaks at Messrs. Loddiges’s, where there 
are three trees, marked Q. palistris, Q. Banisteri, and Q. montana, (all of 
which are the Q.. paliistris of Michaux,) which are above 30 ft. high, which is 
several feet higher than any of the others, with the single exception of Q. ambi- 
gua. The same result as already mentioned (p. 862.) is observable in the Bois 
de Boulogne. The leaves are much smaller than those of the other species of this 
section: they are smooth, of a pleasing green, supported on very long petioles, 
and, on old trees, are very deeply laciniated. On young trees, they are much 
less so, as will be seen by fig. 1589., copied from Michaux’s Histoire des 
Chénes, in which a is a seedling of one year old, and 6 a leaf from a tree two 
years old. The acorns (jig. 1566.i) are small, round, and contained in 
flat shallow cups. 
+ 20. Q. CatrsBpz'r Willd. The Barren Scrub, or Catesby’s, Oak. 
i ion. illd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 446. ; Michx. Quer., No. 17.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 630. 
Cra Q. vibes Babb. and Smith Tns. 1. p- 27-3 Q. Hiscull divisdra, &e., Cat. Car. 1. t. 23. 
Engravings. Michx. Quer., t. 29, 30. ; and our figs. 1591. and 1592. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves smooth, oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, deeply 
and widely sinuated, on short stalks: lobes 3 or 5, divaricated, acute, 2- or 
3-cleft, bristle-pointed. Calyx of the fruit turbinate, half as long as the 
nut. (Willd.) A deciduous shrub or low tree. Carolina and Georgia. 
Height 15 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1823. ' 
ral appearance of this tree is stunted : its trunk is crooked, divid- 
jog Seto beanie, at 2 or 3 feet from the ground, and covered with a thick, 
blackish, deeply furrowed bark The foliage is open, and its leaves are 
large, smooth, thick, and coriaceous towards the close of: summer, deep| 
and irregularly laciniated, and supported on short petioles. With the first 
frost, they change to a dull red, and fall the ensuing month. The acorns are 
