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There is no Corolla. 



The Germen is egg-lTiaped and fmall. The Style fimple, nve- 

 cleft and longer than the empalement. The Stigmas are 

 fimple and permanent. 



There is no Seed-vejfel, but an oval, columnar, fmooth nut, 

 fliaved at the bafe and affixed in the Ihort calyx. 



The Species and Varieties with us, are many^ which, 

 I think, may be divided in the following manner, 

 into 



* Quercus alba. White Oak. 



1. Quercus alba. Common American White Oak» 



This grows very common, and with age arrives to 

 the fize of a large tree of feventy or eighty feet in 

 height, and of three, four, five, or more feet in 

 diameter; dividing into many large branches, and 

 covered with a whitifli fcaly bark. The leaves are 

 narrowed towards the bafe, but fpreading and deeply 

 fmuated obliquely, towards the ends; the finufes ob- 

 tufe, the angles, or produdlions unequal in length, 

 entire and obtufe. They are of a glaucous, or 

 light green underneath and have very fhort footftalks. 

 The acorns are middling fized, fitting in fmall fhal- 

 low cups. There are fome varieties of this, differing 

 in the hardnefs and toughnefs of the timber, and 

 fomewhat in their acorns or fruit. It affords a hard, 

 tough, ufeful and valuable timber, which is hewed 

 into beams, &c. for frame buildings ; fawed into 

 plank, &c, for (hip building; and apphed to various 

 other ufeful purpofes. Our fwine are often wholly 

 fatted upon the feveral kinds of acorns, but for theib 

 and Chefnut Oak they feek moft diligently. 



2. Quercus 



