DICLINIA AMENTACE^E. QuerCUS, 
very variable in size, sometimes not above four feet, 
at others nearly twenty feet high. The younger Mi- 
chaux considers Q. nana of Willdenow to be only a 
variety of the present species 3 which I very much 
doubt. 
7. Q. foliis deciduis oblongis utrinque acutis rnucronatis ia- 
legerrimis nitidis subuis pubescentibus, cupula scu- 
tellata : squamis lato^ovatis, glande subglobosa. — 
Willd. sp. pL 4. p. 428. 
Icon. Mich, querc. n. 9. t. 15. ^ \6. Mich. arh. 2. 
p.ys.t.is. 
On the banks of rivers, within the Allegany mountains, 
and in the western countries thereof, , May, June. 
V. V. The Shingle Oak rises to about forty or fifty 
feet. The younger Michaux considers the wood of this 
species of little value. 
8. Q. foliis deciduis obovato-lanceolatis acutis basi attenna- 
tls integerrimis utrinque glabris, cupula scutellata : 
squamis lanceolatis, glande subovata.-— sp, 
pi. 4. p. 427. ^ 
Icon. Mich, querc. n.lQ, t. \ 
/6. Q. foliis apice obtusis. Mich, querc. t. 18. 
In South Carolina and Georgia, b . May. v. v. The 
Laurel Oak, or as it is sometimes called SwampWillow 
Oak, is about fifty or sixty feet high : its wood, ac- 
cording to the eider Michaux, is very valuable, and 
almost preferable to that of Q. virens. For what rea- 
son the younger Michaux does not mention this spe- 
cies, I cannot tell, unless he considers it only a variety 
of the preceding ; which most certainly is not the case. 
f f Foliis deniatis aut Ireviter lohatis. 
9. Q. foliis subrotundo-ovatis subcordatis utrinque glabris 
remote spinoso-dentatis, cupula hemisphaerica : squa- 
mis laxis, glande ovata acuta. — IVilld. sp. pi. 4, 
p. 431. 
Icon. Pluk. phytogr. t. I96./. 3 ? 
On the north-west coast, about Nootka Sound, Nee. 
b • +• 
10. Q. foliis longe petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis oblongisve in- 
tegris vel inaequaliter grandidentatis, cupula hemi- 
sphaerica, glande subglobosa. — Mich, arh. 2. p. 87. 
Icon. Mich. 1. c. t. 1^. 
On the banks of the Delaware, Pensylvania. b • May. 
V. V, Of this singular species there is but one indivi- 
imhricaria. 
laurifolia. 
obtusa. 
agrifolia^ 
heterophylla, 
