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OBSERVATIONS.

The different varieties of the chesnut oak, particularly this and the last, unite many qualities. The wood is excellent, acorns sweet, and the bark much employed in tanning. The degree of heat of the lake Ontario, and the Allegany mountains, where they grow, being the same as the north of Europe, it would be attended with advantage to cultivate them there.

4. QUERCUS PRINUS (pumila.)

Foliis modice petiolatis, sublanceolatis, subtus glaucis fructu præcedentis. Tab. 9. f, 1. Michaux. *J. A. Michaux. vol. 1.53. Coll. Small Chadnech Chéne Chinquapin.

Chinquapin Oak.

HEIGHT: about three feet.

LEAVES glaucous, sublanceolate, and the stalk

short.

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FRUCTIFICATION.

Quercus Prinoides. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.. 440. spec. 41. Q. foliis obovatis glabris grosse dentatis, dentibus subæqualibus dilatatis apice callosis, calyce fructus hemisphærico nuce ovata.

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The younger Michaux found, at the bottom of the high mountains, which separate N. Carolina from the State of Tennessee, leaving Knoxville, the soil is uneven, stony and bad a great abundance of this Chinquapin oak, and which, he observes, seldom grows higher than three feet; and some of them were so loaded with acorns, that they were bent down to the ground.

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QUERCUS VIRENS. Aiton

Quercus foliis perennantibus, coriaceis: ovato

oblongis;

Quercus bicolor. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. 140. spec. 43. Q. fulus oblongo-obovatis, subtus albo-tomentosis, grosse dentatis, dentibus inæqualibus dilatatis, apice callosis, fructibus geminatis longe pedunculatis. W

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