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and southern Iowa, southeastern Nebraska, and western Missouri; south to the 

 District of Columbia, along the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia, 

 northern Kentucky, and Oklahoma. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Quercus platanoides (La 

 Marck) Sudworth. 



NAMES IN USE 



Swamp White Oak (Vt., Mass., R. I., Swamp Oak (R. I., Pa., Mich.). 



Conn., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., W. Cherry Oak (Del.). 



Va., Mo., 111., Ind., Iowa, Mich., White Oak (N. C, trade). 

 Ont.). 



X Quercus schuettii Trelease. Hybrid. 



Range. — Wisconsin (Fort Howard); New York (vicinity of Rochester and 

 Golan); Quebec; southern Michigan (vicinity of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County). 



Note on nomenclature. — Supposed to be a hybrid between Quercus bicolor 

 Willdenow and Quercus macrocarpa Michaux. 



*Quercus prinus Linnaeus. 16 Swamp Chestnut Oak. 



Range. — From New Jersey (Morris and Salem Counties) and Delaware 

 (vicinity of Wilmington) to Florida (Citrus and Putnam Counties); west in 

 the Gulf region to Texas (Trinit}' River) , and Arkansas and southeastern Missouri 

 to central Tennessee and Kentucky, Illinois (lower Wabash River), and southern 

 Indiana. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Quercus michauxii Nuttall. 



NAMES IN USE 



Basket Oak (Ala., Miss., La., Tex., Swamp White Oak (Del. ,Ala.). 



Ark.). Swamp Chestnut Oak (N.C., Fla.). 



Cow Oak (Ala., Miss., Tex., Ark., White Oak (N. C, trade). 



Mo.). Chestnut Oak (lit.). 



X Quercus byarsii Sudworth. Hybrid. 



Range. — Southwestern Tennessee (vicinity of Covington, Tipton County). 



Note on nomenclature. — Originally described as Quercus michauxii X 

 macrocarpa Sudworth. 17 Supposed to be a hybrid between Quercus prinus 

 Linnaeus and Quercus macrocarpa Michaux. 



*Quercus montana Willdenow. 18 Chestnut Oak. 



Range. — From southern Maine (Saco River and Mount Agamenticus), 

 southern New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts (Blue Hills) to Maryland 

 and District of Columbia), and in the mountains to northern Georgia and Ala- 

 bama; westward to Lake Champlain, and the Genesee River in western New 

 York (Perry and Hale Counties — R. M. Harper); (reported in Berrien County, 

 Michigan) southern Ohio, Illinois (west-central Union County), and Indiana to 

 central Kentucky and Tennessee and northeastern Mississippi. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Quercus prinus of authors, 

 not of Linnaeus. 



18 C. S. Sargent (Rhodora, vol. 17, p. 40, 1915) has shown that the tree to which Linna?us applied the 

 name Quercus prinus is the one long known to us as Quercus michauxii Nuttall. This discovery makes 

 It necessary now to call the Swamp Chestnut Oak Quercus prinus Linnasus. 



"Nomenclature Arb. Flor. U. S., 158 (Bull. 14, Div. For., U. S. Dept. Agr.), 1897. 



18 As shown by C. S. Sargent (Rhodora vol. 17, p. 40, 1915) the Chestnut Oak must now be designated 

 as Quercus montana Willdenow, the name Quercus prinus Linnaeus having been wrongly applied by 

 authors to this species. See footnote No. 16. 



