A Second Station for Hybrid Oaks on the Western End of Staten 
Island * 
WiLitiaAm T. Davis 
(WITH PLATE 3) 
On July 8, 1918, the writer was examining the white pines grow- 
ing at the “Old Camp” to the north of the railroad station at 
Richmond Valley for boring insects and the colonies of carpenter 
ants that so frequently tunnel the trunks of these softwood trees. 
On leaving the grove our path led along the little brook that flows 
southerly through the woods until it crosses the railroad track and 
then westerly by the side of the track to the salt meadow and 
Weir’s creek. On our approach to the railroad track, and only a 
few hundred feet away from it, a hybrid oak was discovered near 
a path on top of the high bank of the brook. This tree has a 
forked trunk and rather narrow leaves, some of which show an 
occasional tooth on the side. The trunk measures 3 ft. 9 in. in 
circumference about 3 ft. from the ground, where it commences to 
divide. The other tree is on the opposite side of the brook, on 
the edge of the woods, by an overgrown field, and is also on rather 
high ground. Its leaves are much broader, and the trunk measures 
3 ft. ro in. in circumference about 3 ft. from the ground. 
The accompanying photographs will show the trees, and it will 
be noted that a foot rule was taken with the trunk pictures to 
accurately show the size by comparison. (PL. 3.) 
_No other trees were found, but it is not improbable that others 
do really exist in the neighboring woods. 
The two trees here recorded are referable to Quercus hetero- 
phylla Michx., the Bartram oak, one of the two hybrid oaks found 
on Staten Island in 1888, in the moist land to the west of Beach 
Av., and recorded in the PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCE 
ASSOCIATION OF STATEN IsLAND for September of that year. 
This locality is about a mile to the southwest of the one near 
Richmond Valley railroad station, and it may be pointed out that 
the conditions under which the trees have grown are somewhat 
different, the one being much more dry than the other. 
1 Read at the regular meeting of the Institute October 19, 1918. 
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