FOREST TREES. 



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Q. Emoryij Torr. — Dwarf Evergreen Oak. — Leaves small, ever- 

 green, slightly lobed, acorns very small. A widely spread 

 shrubby evergreen oak in Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 and southward in Mexico. 



Q. fakata; Michx. — Spanish Oak. — Leaves oblong, rounded at 

 the base, three to five-lobed ; the lobes entire or sparingly 

 toothed at the apex, the terminal one commonly narrow and 

 elongated. Acorns about a half inch long, set in a cup enclos- 

 ing half of the roundish nut. A large tree, often sixty to seventy 

 feet high, and stem four feet in diameter. Wood dark-brown 

 or reddish, coarse-grained, decays rapidly when exposed to 

 moisture. Bark thick, rich in tannin, and often extensively 

 employed by tanners in making what is called ''Oak-tanned 

 Leather." New Jersey, southward to Florida, and westward to 

 the Valley of the Mississippi. Very abundant in the Southern 

 States. 



Q. Garryana, Dougl. — Western Oak. — Leaves four to six inches 

 long, by two to five wide on stalks, a half to one inch long, 

 coarsely deeply cut-lobed ; lobes broad, obtuse, or sometimes 

 sharp-pointed, dull green above, beneath pale-yellowish, and 

 somewhat downy. Acorns sessile or on short stalks, one to 

 one and a half inches long, oval, in small and very shallow 

 cup. A large tree, seventy to a hundred feet high, and stem 

 three to four feet in diameter. Wood said to be coarse, hard, 

 and brittle. A common tree in the valleys north of San Fran- 

 cisco Bay, extending into Oregon and British Columbia. 



Q. Georgiana, M. A. Curtis. — Georgia Oak. — Leaves three to 

 four inches long, very smooth, somewhat obovate, and wedge- 

 shaped at base, with deep or shallow sinuses, three to five-tri- 

 angular or obtuse lobes. Acorn a half inch long, oval or round- 

 ish, set in smooth cups, enclosing one third of the nut. A small 

 shrub, six to eight feet high, on Stone Mountain, Georgia. 



Q. lieteropliyllaj Michx. — Bartram Oak. — Dr. Engelmann places 

 this among the hybrid oaks, and intermediate between Q. Phcl- 

 los and coccinea, but Decandolle considered it a variety of Q. 

 aquatica, which in some respects it certainly very much resem- 

 bles, especially in the sharp-pointed lobes of its leaves. The 

 original tree in the old Bartram Garden, Philadelphia, was 

 long since destroyed, and was only a small tree, some thirty feet 

 high at the time. But there are seedlings of it now twice that 

 hight, differing somewhat from the original. At best, we may 



