. The American entomologist. Entomology. 282 THE AMERICAN Kock Chestnut Oak (var. monticola, Mx.) is also given as occurring in the Eastern States. There has evidently been much coufusion in the nomenclature of this group of Oaks. Michaux, indeed, united into one species, Q. prinus, L., not only the typical form (which is it?), but as varieties four forms, several of which are now regarded as good species, including those above described, and another which is known as the Chinquapin Oak, or Dwarf Chestnut Oak. This is made a distinct species by Willdenow under the name Quercus prinoides, and i
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 282 THE AMERICAN Kock Chestnut Oak (var. monticola, Mx.) is also given as occurring in the Eastern States. There has evidently been much coufusion in the nomenclature of this group of Oaks. Michaux, indeed, united into one species, Q. prinus, L., not only the typical form (which is it?), but as varieties four forms, several of which are now regarded as good species, including those above described, and another which is known as the Chinquapin Oak, or Dwarf Chestnut Oak. This is made a distinct species by Willdenow under the name Quercus prinoides, and it is considered a good species by late botanical authors. It is a shrub of from two to six feet in height, with leaves closely resembling those of the Swamp White Oak (Q. bicolor, Willd.), but much smaller, with an abundance of small, sweetish acorns, and is usually found on poor soil. It is common in the Eastern States, and occurs also in Wisconsin and Iowa, but not, so far as we are aware, in Illinois. We next take up a group of Evergreen Oaks, in which the maturation of the fruit is like the [Fig. Live Oak—(Qko-cks vircns. Ait.) preceding, annual. (Another group of ever- green species comes in the next section.) In Mexico and California are several species of this kind, but on the eastern side of the continent we have only one, the Live Oak {Q. rirens, Ait.) This species is confined to the Southern and Southwestern States, being found from the coast of Virginia southward and westward. It has entire or nearly entire leaves, oblong and blunt, almost leathery in thickness, shining on the upper surface and whitish beneath. They are rather small, usually from i to 6 inches long. The acorns are oblong and pointed, the stnooth- ish cup enclosing about one-third of the fruit. This species furnishes valuable timber. Michaux and some of the older writers classed this with the biennial fruiting species, but DeCandolle and later authors place it in the annual fruiting section,
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