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ly 2^nd fometinies pretty deeply finuated, the angles 

 or produAions unequal, generally obtufe, yet with 

 their veins extending in a briftly point. The acorns 

 are roundifh and not large, fitting in thick fcaly cups. 

 There is, I think, a variety of this of much finaller 

 growth, with larger leaves and differing fomewhat 

 in the fruit. Our common Black Oak is ufed much 

 (where Cedar is fcarce) for making fliingles, and 

 alfo for rails^ &c. 



v5. QuERC us- nigra digit^ta. Finger-leaved 

 Black Oak. 



This grows n^iturally in low lands, rifmg to the 

 height of thirty or forty feet, with a trunk of con- 

 fiderable thicknefs, covered with a rough blackifli 

 bark. The leaves are fmuated, or divided towards 

 their extremities into two or three pretty long, fome- 

 what finger-fhaped lobes, of unequal length, with 

 others (horter, fometimes at the fides; all of which 



^'cnd in a briftly point. The acorns are fmall, but 



'the cups pretty large. 



6. Que R eus nigra trifida. Maryland Black 



This grows naturally in Maryland, and other low 

 lands, , with a trunk of eighteen inches or two feet 

 in diameter, and thirty or forty feet in height. The 

 leaves arc wedge-fhaped, or narrowed towards the 

 bafe, and three-pointed, with briftly terminations- 

 The acorns. ai[id cups refcmble the laft mentioned. 



7. Que Reus nigra Integrifolia. Entire-kaved 



Black Oak. 



This grows about the fize of the other lo\^-land 

 Black Oak, and is of the fame appearance, except 



the 



