MONOECIA POLYANDRIA 533 



2 inches long, slender. Acorn small (scarcely half an inch long), aubglobose, 

 l °roundiflh-o*o.d, ,n a smoothish shallow sauce*r-like cup y which is often sub* 

 ° r binate or slightly and abruptly tapering from the centre of the base. 

 ii h Wet low grounds ; along rivulet* : frequent. Fl. May. Ft. October. 



Obs. The wood of this is very firm; and is much used by wheelwrights, kc* 



5 Q. Baxistert, JMx. Leaves cuneate-obovate, angulate-lobed, 



cinereous-tonientose beneath; cup sub-turbinate ; nut roundish-ovoid. 



jjeck,Bot.p. 330. Icox, Mr./. Sylva, 1. tab. 21. 



q n igra puroila? Marsh. Arbust. p. 122. 



<j ilicifolia. Willd. Sp. 4. p. 447. Per*. Syn. 2. p. 569. Ait. Jfo* 



fcA 292. JVutt. Gen. 2. p. 215. .£//. Sk. 2. />. 605. -B/gr/, Bost. 



p. 352. -Efl*. Jlfon. p. 293. 



Bakistek's Quercus. Fw/yo — Black Scrub-Oak. Barren Oak. 



Stem 3 to 6 or 8 feet high, crooked, and much branched. Leaves 2 to 3 or 4 

 inches long, and 1 to 2 or 3 inches wide, many of them cuneate-obovate, and 

 Globed at apex, others angularly 5-lobed, and somewhat fiddle. shaped, the lobes 

 leiaceously mucronate, the upper surface at first pubescent, finally smoothish, 

 the under surface clothed with a short dense cinereous tomentum ; petioles half 

 in inch to an inch long. Acorns small, roundish, or elliptic-ovoid, striate, in very 

 numerous clusters on the branches. 

 flab. Sterile slaty hills: frequent. 1%. May. Fr. September. 



Obs. This worthless little species is very abundant on the Mica-slate, or South 

 Valle; hills; but is rarely seen on good land. 



§ 2. Fructification annual; fruit mostly pedunculate. 

 f Leaves sinuate-lobed ; lobes not mucronate. 



6. Q. obtusiloba, Mx. Leaves obovate-oblong, cuneate at base, 

 irregularly sinuate-lobed, the upper lobes dilated, retuse ; cup hern> 

 spherical, squamose ; nut elliptic-ovoid. Beck, Hot. p. 330, Jco*, Mx % 

 f. Sylva, 1. tab. 5. 



Q. alba minor. Marsh. Arbust. p. 120. 



Q. stellatsu Willd. Sp. 4. p. 452. Pern. Syn. 2. p. 570. Ait. Kev>. 

 5. p. 294. Muhl. Catal. p. 87. LindL Ency.p. 796. 



Obtuse-lobbd Quercus. Vulgo — Barren White-Oak. Post-Oak. 



Stem 20 to 30 or 40 feet high, and 1 to 2 feet in diameter, with a light-grey bark, 

 branched above, the branches irregular, spreading, densely pubescent when 

 young. Leaves 4 to 6 inches long, and 3 or 4 inches wide, thick and coriaceous, 

 dilated towards the apex, obtusely sinuate-lobed, the upper lobes dilated and 

 emarginate, the terminal one sometimes 2-lobed, the upper surface smoothish and 

 shining (often roughish with short fasciculate hairs, when young), the under on* 

 pale ferruginous, or tawny, and clothed with a stellular or fasciculate pubescence ; 

 petioles half an inch to 3 quarters in length, stout, pubescent. Acorn small! 

 elliptic-ovoid, or often roundish-ovoid, with the apex depressed, or umbilicatc, 

 the lower half embraced by the scaly hemispherical cup,— the fruit sessile, or 

 often in small clusters on a common peduncle. 



Bab. Dry sterile hills ; Serpentine banks: frequent. Fl. May. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. This tree is pretty much confined to slaty hills, or serpentine ridges. 

 The icood it very durable ; and is much valued for posts, &c. It alio makes good 

 fuel. 



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