MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
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Grows in the vicinity of salt water. 
Flowers April. 
6. Myrtifolia. Willd. 
Q. foliis perennanti- 
bus, coriaceis, parvis, 
oblongo-obovatis, mil- 
ticis, utrinque aculis, 
glabris, supra nitidis 
reticulatisque, margine 
revolutis. 
Leaves perennial, 
coriaceous, small, ob- 
long-ovate, unawned, 
acute at each end, gla- 
brous, shining and reti- 
culate on the upper sur- 
face, margin revolute. 
Sp. pi. 4. pi. 424. Pursh, 2, p. 6261 Nutt. 2. p. 214. 
Branches terete. Leaves on short petioles, coriaceous, oblong, rather 
acute at base, entire and slightly revolute, shining on the upper surface, 
opake and glabrous underneath, resembling very much those of the common 
Myrtle, willd; scarcely larger than those of the Box, Nutt. 
This specie of oak was discovered, I believe, by Mr. Kim, on Cumberland 
Island in Georgia, and probably extends along the sea-coast of Florida; its 
fruit is still unknown. 
Flowers. 
7. Laurifolia. Mich. 
Q. foliis sub peren- 
nantibus, sessilibus, 
oblongo - lanceolatis, 
sub acutis, basi attenu- 
atis, integerrimis, u- 
trinque glabris; nuce 
subovata. 
Leaves nearly peren- 
nial, sessile, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, nearly acute, 
tapering at base, en- 
tire, glabrous on both 
surfaces; nut somewhat 
ovate. 
Mich. 2. p. 197- Sp. pi. 4. 427. Pursh, 2, p. 62 7 . Nutt. 2. p. 2X4. 
Q. Hemisphaerica, Bartram’s Travels, p. 320. 
Icon. Mich. Querc. t. 17 and 18; perhaps also t. 20. f. 2. 
A tree sometimes growing 40 — 50 feet high, and 2 — 4 feet in diameter, 
with its branches regularly expanding and forming a large handsome hemis- 
pherical head. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes obovate, acute or ob- 
tuse, nearly sessile, very glabrous on both surfaces, with the margins slightly 
revolute; those of the young plant toothed and irregularly sinuate; all some- 
