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■^VEEDS AXD USEFUL TLANTS. 



6. d. vi'rens, Leaves coria. 

 ceous, elliptic - obloAg, somewhat 

 toothed or angled on young trees, 

 entire on old ones, with a revolute 

 margin, rather acute at apex, but 

 not mucronate, stellately pubescent 

 beneath ; cupule turbinate, peduncu- 

 late ; acorn oblong. 

 Geeex Queecus. Live Oak. 



Slem 20-40 or 50 feot high, and 1 or 2 - 5 or 

 6 feet in diameter, with numerous large wide- 

 spreading crooked branches — the wood re- 

 markably dense and heavy, with twisted 

 gnarled fibres. Leaves an inch and a half to 

 3 inches long, perennial, but a portion of them 

 falling from the old trees every spring, dark 

 green above, whitish beneath, on short 

 petioles. Acorn ovoid-oblong or oval, of a 

 dark brown color, seated in a bcwl-?haped 

 pedunculate cup — the peduncle about au inch 

 long, axillary. 

 Sea coast : Virginia to Florida. 



Gos. This noted tree— so valuable in ship-building— is pretty niach 

 confined to the sandy sea-coast of the Southern States. Its most norths 

 ern locality appears to be at Old Point Comfort, near Norfolk, Virgi- 

 nia, — where it is reduced to quite a small tree. Four or five other 

 species, belonging to this group, are found in the United States — chiefly 

 in the South ; but they are mostly small, and of little value. 



TTiLLOTT Oak Group. Leaves deciduous, entire, narrow. 



7. Q,. Phei'los, L. Leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at each end, 

 glabrous : cupule saucer-shaped ; acorn roundish. 



Willow-leaved Oak. AYillow Oak. 



Stevi 40-60 or YO feet hi?h, and 1-2 feet or more in diameter, with a smoothish bark 

 Z^res 2-4 inches long, subsessile, entire or the young ones sometimes dentate. Acort 

 small, subglobose, seated in a shallow saucer-like subsessile cup. 



Moist low grounds. New Jersey, Kentuckj" and South. 



Ohs. There are apparently some varieties of this, — or, if they are 

 specifically distinct, nearly allied species. The tree sometimes acquires 

 considerable size, — but the timber is not particularly valuable ; and as 

 it is rather local in its habitat, is not much known beyond those limits. 



8. Q,. imbrica'ria, ^ia-. Leaves deciduous, lance-oblong or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute at each end, mucronate. smooth and shining above, 

 pubescent beneath ; cupule saucer-shaped : acorn somewhat hemis- 

 pherical. 



Fig. 2C5. The I,ive Oak (Quercus virers). 



