Plate XXXVII.—Quercus alba.
| 1. Winter buds. |
| 2. Flowering branch. |
| 3-4. Sterile flower, front view. |
| 5. Fertile flower, side view. |
| 6. Fruiting branch. |
| 7-8. Variant leaves. |
Quercus stellata, Wang.
Q. obtusiloba, Michx. Q. minor, Sarg.
Post Oak. Box White Oak.
Habitat and Range.
Doubtfully reported from southern Ontario.
In New England, mostly in sterile soil near the sea-coast; Massachusetts,—southern Cape Cod from Falmouth to Brewster, the most northern station reported, occasional; the islands of Naushon, Martha's Vineyard where it is rather common, and Nantucket where it is rare; Rhode Island,—along the shore of the northern arm of Wickford harbor (L. W. Russell); Connecticut,—occasional along the shores of Long Island sound west of New Haven.
South to Florida; west to Kansas, Indian territory, and Texas.
Habit.—Farther south, a tree of the first magnitude, reaching a height of 100 feet, with a trunk diameter of 4 feet; in southern New England occasionally attaining in woodlands a height of 50-60 feet; at its northern limit in Massachusetts, usually 10 to 35 feet in height, with a diameter at the ground of 6-12 inches. The trunk throws out stout, tough, and often conspicuously crooked branches, the lower horizontal or declining, forming a disproportionately large head, with dark green, dense foliage. Near the shore the limbs often grow very low, stretching along the ground as if from an underground stem.