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There is no Corolla . 
The Germeri is egg-fhaped and fmall. The Style Ample, five- 
cleft and longer than the empalement. The Stigmas axe* 
fimple and permanent. 
There is no Seed-veJJ'el , but an oval, columnar, fmooth nut, 
ihaved at the bafe and affixed in^the ffiort calyx. 
The Species and Varieties with us , are many , which 9 
I think , may be divided in the following manner 9 
into 
* ()uercus alba. White Oak. 
i. 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 whitifh fcaly bark. The leaves are 
narrowed towards the bafe, but fpreading and deeply 
finuated obliquely, towards the ends; the fmufes ob- 
tufe, the angles, or productions 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 (hal- 
low cups. There are foine 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 fliip building; and applied to various 
other ufeful purpofes. Our fwine are often wholly 
fatted upon the feveral kinds of acorns, but for thefe 
and Chefnut Oak they feek molt diligently. 
2. Quercus 
