. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY rounded or acute. They come out of the bud convolute, yellow green or bronze, shining above, very pubescent below. When full grown are thick, firm, dark yellow green, somewhat shining above, pale green and pubescent below ; midribs stout, yellow, primary veins conspicuous. In autumn they turn a dull yellow soon chang- ing into a yellow brown. Petioles stout or slender, short. Stipules linear to lanceolate, caducous. Flowers.—May, when leaves are one-third grown. Staminate f
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY rounded or acute. They come out of the bud convolute, yellow green or bronze, shining above, very pubescent below. When full grown are thick, firm, dark yellow green, somewhat shining above, pale green and pubescent below ; midribs stout, yellow, primary veins conspicuous. In autumn they turn a dull yellow soon chang- ing into a yellow brown. Petioles stout or slender, short. Stipules linear to lanceolate, caducous. Flowers.—May, when leaves are one-third grown. Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two to three inches long; calyx pale yellow, hairy, deeply seven to nine-lobed ; stamens seven to nine ; anthers bright yellow. Pistillate flowers on short spikes ; pe- duncles green, stout, hairy ; involucral scales hairy ; stigmas short, bright red. Acorns.—Annual, singly or in pairs ; nut oval, rounded or acute at apex, bright chestnut brown, shining, one and a quarter to one and one-half inches in length; cup, cup-shaped or turbinate, usu- ally inclosing one-half or one-third of the nut, thin, light brown and downy within, reddish brown and rough outside, tuberculate near the base. Scales small, much crowded toward the rim sometimes making a fringe. Kernel white, sweetish. The Chestnut Oak, Q. priniis, and the Yellow Oak, Q. acu- minata., have many characters in common. The extreme typical forms of each differ, but they vary toward each other until the dividing line is difficult to draw ; at their widest they are no far- ther apart than the different forms of the black oaks. The Chestnut Oak is accredited in the books to dry soil and sandy ridges but it loves wet situa- tions as well. The little streams of northern Ohio which make their way into Lake Erie cut for themselves deep channels through the yielding shale and form ravines from fifty to two hundred feet deep. Down the sides of these ravines and into the narrow intervale crowd the
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