BARRENS SCRUB OAK. 
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plantations on the downs, as I was told near the Hague upon the coast of 
Plolland. 
Proprietors of large estates, who are addicted to the chase, might find 
this species and the Dwarf Chesnut Oak convenient for copses ; they would 
afford nourishment to the game during several months in the year, and 
would allow the sportsman a fair aim at the birds as they rose upon the 
wing. 
PLATE XXL 
Jl branch with leaves and fruit of the natural size. 
BARRENS SCRUB OAK. 
CluERcus CATESBÆI. Q.folUs brevîssîmè petîolatîs, basî angusiatîs, acutîs, sub- 
palmato lobatis, lobis înterdùm subf alcalis : cupulâ rnajusculâ\ squamis 
marginalïbus introflexis : glande brevi ovatâ. 
Accouding to my own observations, this species is confined to the lower 
part of the Carolinas and Georgia. I first saw it a few miles south of 
Raleigh, N. C., latitude 40'. It grows in soils too meager to sustain 
any other vegetation, such as the vicinity of Wilmington, N. C., where the 
light movable sand is wholly destitute of vegetable mould. It is the only 
species multiplied in the pine-barrens, and from this circumstance it seems 
to have derived its name. 
In traversing these forests, I nowhere saw the Scrub Oak more uniformly 
disseminated than between Fayetteville and Wilmington, an interval of 
60 miles, where it forms nearly one-tenth of the woods : the Pines them- 
! selves, throughout the barrens, are scattered at the distance of 15 or 20 
feet. 
i The foliage of this tree is open, and its leaves are large, smooth, thick 
I and coriaceous towards the close of summer, deeply and irregularly lacin- 
