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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
what clustered near the summit of the small branches. Fruit ovate. Cup 
shallow, nearly sessile. 
This is one of our handsomest species of oak, and is frequently cultivated 
around buildings instead of the live oak, as it is supposed to be more easy to 
remove, more rapid in its growth, and by some considered, on account of the 
regularity of its branches, more beautiful. The old trees shed their leaves 
freely towards the close of the winter, and are nearly naked in March. The 
young plants generally retain their foliage. The timber is supposed to pos- 
sess neither the strength nor durability of the live oak. 
The figure in Mich. Querc. t. 20. f. 2. exactly resembles the young plants 
of this species. And as this oak, though growing in dry soils, is more known 
by the name of u Water Oak, ?? than by any other appellation, it is not im- 
possible that Michaux may have been misled by its popular denomination 
to insert a figure of it among the real Water Oaks. 
I have always considered this as the real Q. Hemisphaerica of Bartram. 
It certainly is the species to which his description most appropriately ap- 
plies. 
Grows in rich sandy soils along the margin of swamps, appearing to take 
the place of the live oak as you leave the margin of the ocean, but growing 
also with the live oak on the sea-islands. 
Flowers April. 
8. Imbricaru. Mich. 
Q,. foliis deciduis, ob- 
longis, utrinque acutis, 
mucronatis, integerri- 
mis, nitidis, subtus pu- 
bescentibus; nuce sub- 
globosa. 
Leaves deciduous, 
obloug, acute at each 
end, mueronate, entire, 
shining, pubescent un- 
derneath; nut nearly 
spherical. 
Mich. 2. p. 197. Sp. pi. 4. p. 428. Pursh, 2. p. 627, Nutt. 2. p. 214, 
Icon. Mich. Querc. t. 15, 16. Mich. arb. for. 2. p. 78. 
A tree 40 — 50 feet high, 12 — 18 inches in diameter, with numerous irre- 
gular branches. Leases lanceolate, entire, mueronate, shining on the up- 
per surface, Very pubescent and somewhat ferruginous underneath, on very 
short petioles. Fruit rather small, nearly spherical. Cup shallow, nearly 
sessile. 
The leaves of this species are much larger than those of the Q. Laurifo- 
lia, and are very pubescent underneath; the fruit also differs in figure. The 
wood is said by Michaux to be of little value, but it splits easily, and is used 
in the Western States, where it more frequently occurs, for shingles. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina, Dr. Macbride; not found in the low 
country. 
Flowers — 
