M0N0EC1A TRIANDR1A. 
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Icon. Mich. Querc. t. 13 — f. 1, 2. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 84. 
A small shrub with creeping roots, rarely exceeding two feet in height. 
Stem slender, virgate, tomentose when young, sparingly branched. Leaves 
on short petioles, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at base, undulate particularly 
when young, the under surface covered with a dense hoary tomentum, the 
upper when young sprinkled with a stellular pubescence, becoming glabrous 
with age. The sterile florets are produced in such profusion, as to render 
the plant very conspicuous at the season of flowering. Acorn small, not 
produced in any abundance even when not destroyed by fire, nearly sphe- 
rical. Cup shallow, on a very short peduncle. 
The figure of Michaux the younger, arb. for. which recalls the plant very 
accurately to my recollection, represents the leaves as tapering at base, spe- 
cimens before me have them all very obtuse. In this respect it probably 
varies. 
This has always appeared to me a very distinct species, marked by many 
characteristic features. In many situations where the woods have not for 
years been burnt, I have seen it growing, without exceeding the height I 
have specified. I know not how Mr. Nuttall was led to consider it as a 
Swamp variety of the Q. Cinerea; for although it does not generally grow 
in a soil as arid as the sand hills in the middle country to which the Q. Cine- 
rea appropriately belongs, it is found only in the driest pine barrens along 
that district which is emphaticalty called the “low country of Carolina and 
Georgia.” 
Flowers March — April. 
Q. foliis perennanti- 
bus, coriaceis, ovali- 
lanceolatis, integerri- 
mis, margine revoiutis, 
basi obtusis, apice sub 
acutis, subtus stellatim 
pubescentibus; fructi- 
bus pedunculatis; nuce 
oblonga. 
Leaves perennial, 
coriaceous, oval-lance- 
olate, entire, with the 
margins revolute, ob- 
tuse at base, generally 
acute at the summit, 
stellularly pubescent 
underneath; fruit on 
peduncles; nut oblong. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 425. Mich. 2. p. 196. Pursh, 2. p. 626. Nutt. 2. p. 214. 
Q. Sempervirens, Walt. p. 234. 
Icon. Mich. Querc. t. 10 — 11. Mich. arb. for. 2. p.*6f. 
A large tree, with spreading curved and twisted branches, rarely exceed- 
ing 50 feet in height, but covering with its enormous limbs when growing in 
open situations, a large circumference. The Stem sometimes attains a dia- 
meter of 5 — 7 feet, but generally divides into large branches at 8 or 10 feet 
from the ground. Leaves oval-lanceolate, with the margins conspicuously 
revolute, pubescent, almost tomentose underneath, entire on the old ' tree . 
