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FAGACEAE (BKECH FAMILY) 



Q. palustriB. 



tending to be deeper and somewhat turbinate (Q. 

 ambigua and borealis Miehx. f. ; Q. coccinea, var. 

 ambigua Gray.) 



12. Q. paliJstris Muench. (Swamp Spanish or Vin 

 O.) Cup flat-saucer-shaped, sometimes contracted into 

 a short scaly base or stalk, fine-scaled, very much 

 shorter than the usually glo- 

 bose or depressed acorn, which 

 is 1-1.6 cm. long; leaves 

 deeply pinnatifid with diver- 

 gent lobes and broad rounded 

 sinuses. — Low grounds, chiefly 

 on the coastal plain and in 

 the Miss, basin ; Mass. to Va., 

 w. to Kan. and Ark. Fig. 681 . 

 1.3. Q. coccinea Muench. 

 (Scarlet O.) Cnp top- 

 shaped, or hemispherical 

 with a conical base (1.5-2.2 

 cm. broad), coarsely scaly, 



covering half or more of the subglobose or short ovoid 

 acorn (1.3-2 cm. long), the scales brown, oppressed 

 and glabrate ; leaves, at least on full-grown trees, 

 bright green, shining above, glabrous beneath, turning 

 red in autumn, deeply pinnatifid, the slender lobes 

 divergent and sparingly cut-toothed ; buds small; bark of the trunk gray, the 



interior reddish. — Dry light soil, s. 

 Me. to Ont., Minn., and Neb., s. to 

 N. C. and 111., chiefly eastvf. Fig. 

 682. 



14. Q. tezHna Buckley. (Red 

 0.) Cvp deeply saucer-shaped or 

 somewhat turbinate, 2-2.6 cm. broad, 

 the light brown or ashy scales per- 

 manently tomentulose, except on the 

 margin, covering one third to one 

 half of the ovoid large (1.5-4 cm. 

 long) acorn; leaves In maturity 

 bright green and glabrovis above, 

 paler and with axillary tufts of hairs 

 beneath, turning dark red or brown 

 in autumn, the 5-9 oblong lobes 



Q. coodnea. 



080. Q. rubra. 



slightly broadened upward and toothed at 

 summit ; bark gray, becoming in old trees 

 reddish-brovfn and broken into plates. — 

 Bottom-lands and limestone hills, Ind. to 

 la., s. to N. C, Fla., and Tex. — A 

 large tree with conspicuously buttressed 



16. Q. ellipsoiaails E. J. Hill. (Tel- 

 LOW or Black 0.) Cup turbinate or 

 deeply saucer-shaped, 1.2-1.8 cm. broad, 

 the pale brown or ashy scales puberulent, 

 covering from one third to more than one 



fies. Q. ellipsoidalis. 



