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CHESNUT WHITE OAK. 
Q,uercus prinus palustris. Q. folîîs ohïongo-ovalihus, aciimînafis acutîsve. 
subuniformiter dentatis ; cupulâ crateratâ, subsquamosâ ; glande ovatâ, 
Quercus ’prinus. Willd. 
The Chesnut White Oak is first seen within ten miles of Philadelphia ; 
but it is less multiplied and less amply developed than further south. It is 
most abundant in the maritime parts of the Carolinas, Georgia and East 
Florida, and is probably found on the banks of the Mississippi, which are 
analogous to those of many rivers of the Southern States. 
In Pennsylvania this species is confounded with the Rock Chesnut Oak, 
which it strikingly resembles ; further south, where the Rock Chesnut 
Oak is unknown, it is called Chesnut White Oak, Swamp Chesnut Oak, 
and generally on the Savannah White Oak. 
The Chesnut White Oak is adorned with beautiful foliage ; the leaves 
are 8 or 9 inches long, 4 or 5 inches broad, obovate, deeply toothed, of a 
light shining green above and whitish beneath. 
The acorns are brown, oval, larger than those of any other species 
except the Over-cup White Oak, and contained in shallow scaly cups. 
Being sweet-flavoured, and sometimes abundant, they are sought with 
avidity by wild and domestic animals, such as deer, cows, horses and 
swine. 
The Chesnut White Oak, like the Over-cup Oak, grows only in the 
large swamps that border the rivers or are enclosed in the forests ; but it 
always chooses spots that are rarely inundated, where the soil is loose, 
deep, constantly cool and luxuriantly fertile. 
In the Carolinas and Georgia it is usually accompanied by the White 
Elm, the Wahoo, the Big Laurel, the Umbrella Tree, the Sweet Leaves, 
the Beech, the Poplar, the Bitternut Hickory and the Devil Wood. In 
this latitude it attains its utmost development, which is 80 or 90 feet in 
stature, with a proportional diameter. Its straight trunk, undivided and of 
a uniform size to the height of 50 feet, and its expansive tufted summit, 
form one of the most beautiful and majestic trees of the North American 
forests. 
Its wood, which is affected by the richness of the soil, is inferior to that 
of the Post Oak, the White Oak, and even the Over-cup Oak ; and its 
pores, though nearly obliterated, are more open. But it is superior to 
