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70. q ii tfiohanxii Nutt. 



a k. a lowland ipeeleaof the southeastern part of the Btate, where it 

 BtUtm i . ;ht and corresponding girth, and is very rateable lor lumber, it 



oeeara In Bollliger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Daoklln, New Madrid and Stoddard 

 eoool - 



71. Quer< ae minor Harsh. Sargent. 



*ll-alaed tree, rea< blag it - relopment 



In and about toe Oi irk region, where la boom plaoet it aod the Blaok-Jaok oak are 

 BHUHirj Bt. Appears to be absent or v. 10 the in.rthv. e-tern 



Bitrt f the £ I may be seen from the following list of eountles. for at present 



in Adair, Atehison. BartOB, Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, 

 Christian, Clark, Dunklin. Greene, Henry. Howard. Howell. Jack- 

 re:;.-e. Livingston, Madison. 'LI-..mM. Newton. Ore- 

 gon' Kip - ion. Bt. Francois. St. Louis. Texas. Wayne, Webster and 

 Wright counties. Thi9 ie Quercus atdlata Wang. 



7J. Qaeroua Mohlenbergii Engelm. 



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

 nuts . \, known and distributed throughout the State In dry or rocky 



ground, and la often called Yeilow-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, 

 -nald. New Madrid, Newton. Oregon. Pike. Platte. Kay, Shannon, St. Fran- 

 cols. St. Louis, lexa*. Washington and Wayne counties. Broadhead reported 

 from Adair county, and Swallow reported it also from Mississippi 

 c 0ur ue Chinquapin-oak was evidently what they had under considera- 



tion. 

 73. Quercus nigra I.. 



Black lack 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, Ntwton, 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. 



7 1. QuexeiM palnstris Du Roi. 



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 

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

 State. Itlsfourdin Adair, Bollinger. Butler, Cape Girardeau, Clark, Dunklin, 

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

 Ray. Shannon. St. Louis. Stoddard, Sullivan and Wayne cou >mmonly 



called Tarkey-oak in the Ozark region, but this name belongs to Qucreu« Catabai. 



Querent Phellee L 



I n valuable tree of the lowlands of the southeastern part of 

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



