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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
2. Cinerea. Mich. 
Ur 
Leaves perennial, 
coriaceous, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, entire, with the 
margin slightly revo- 
lute, mucronate at the 
summit, stellularly to- 
mentose underneath; 
fruit sessile; nut nearly 
spherical. 
Mich. 2. p. 19 7- Sp. pi. 4. p. 425. Pursh, 2. p. 626. Nutt. 2. p. 214. 
Q. Pumilis, Walt. p. 234. 
Icon. Mich. Querc. No. 8 t. 14. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 81. 
A small tree rarely exceeding 20 feet in height, with irregular crooked 
branches. Leaves on short petioles, oblong-lanceolate, sometimes acute, 
sometimes obtuse, always mucronate, very slightly revolute along the margin, 
covered underneath with a very close and short tomentum, of a greyish hue, 
fyut very generally discoloured with shades of brown. Acorn small, not 
abundant, nearly spherical. Cup shallow, sessile. 
Grows on the dry and barren hills in the middle districts of Carolina and 
Georgia, sometimes called high ground Willow Oak, Turkey Oak, Scrub 
Oak, which last name, however, includes the Q. Nigra or Black Jack and 
Q. Catesbsei, to which it more peculiarly belongs. **— — "* - * 
Flowers March — April. 
Q. foliis perennanti- 
bus, coriaceis, oblongo- 
Ianceolatis, integerri- 
mis, margine subrevo- 
lutis, apice mu.cronatis, 
subtus steliatim tomen- 
tosis; fructibus sessili- 
bus; nuce subglobosa. 
k 3. PUMILA. Walt. 
Q. foliis deciduis, ob- 
longo-lanceolatis, sub- 
undulatis, basi obtusis, 
apice acutis, mucrona- 
tis, subtus tomentosis, 
supra glabris; nuce 
subgloboso. 
Leaves deciduous, 
oblong - lanceolate, 
slightly undulate, ob- 
tuse at base, acute and 
mucronate at the sum- 
mit, glabrous on the 
upper surface, tomen- 
tose underneath; nut 
nearly spherical. 
Walt. p. 234. Nutt. 2. p. 214. 
Q. Phellos, var Pumila, Mich. 2. p. 19 7. 
Q. Sericea, Sp. fol. 4. p. 424. Pursh, 2. p. 62 6. 
