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The chestnut oak a tree of tlio rocky woods and hilUides and 

 makes its best (growth in Alabama on elevations exceeding eit^ht 

 hundred feet. Its present sonthern limit coincides approximately 

 with the isothermal line of 00° F., which also serves t() mark the 



This line crosses the (1iattahooch(v river near West Point, Ga., 

 orahont forty nnlcs dncMiorth of Abercnmibies Landin^r. Two 

 leaves were found in the })cat, and one fragmentary specimen show- 

 ing: venatioii but not niar^'iiial ch;u'ac1tM-s is from the overlying clays. 

 It was re(rntlv recorded by the writer from the Pleistocene 'of 

 North Carolina where it is present in consideral)le abundance. 



Quercus phellos I.iime, Sp. PL, p. <K)4, 1753. 

 PI. 1, Fio-. 1. 



r5erry, Journ. dvoj., vol. b"), p. 342, J907. 



Tlic willow oak is a common element in the mesophile forests 

 of the northern part of Alal)ama: it l)ecomes rare, however, south 

 of the long-leaf i)i!ic belt which stretches across the central part 

 of the state, its southern l)oundary crossing the Chattahoochee 

 river just nortli of Abercrombies Fanding. The fossil leaves are 



oxeiKinir (h.N. It u.i^ i.lduh k . ..nlc 1 l)v the xm iter fiom the 

 Pleisto<«>ncct \oith ( ainhna ^^\^^ n it i. v. n (..inumn 



Ulmusalata Mich.x., /•/. .1///. />'n/-., vol. I, p. 17:;. lsi);'>. 



