. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the IS^oetheen States and Canj \DA. 159 This curious Oiik in forests Occasionally at- tains the height of 70 or 80 ft., and when isolated from other trees develops an ovoid or rounded quite symmetrical top with many slen- der branches. The trunks are sometimes 3 or 4 ft. in thickness, columnar and vested in a smoothish bark, somewhat roughened on old trunks by shallow longitudinal ridges. It in- habits the margins of swamps and streams and sandy uplands most ab
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the IS^oetheen States and Canj \DA. 159 This curious Oiik in forests Occasionally at- tains the height of 70 or 80 ft., and when isolated from other trees develops an ovoid or rounded quite symmetrical top with many slen- der branches. The trunks are sometimes 3 or 4 ft. in thickness, columnar and vested in a smoothish bark, somewhat roughened on old trunks by shallow longitudinal ridges. It in- habits the margins of swamps and streams and sandy uplands most abundantly in the south- ern states (though not in the immediate vicin- ity of the coast) and in the lower Mississippi basin. It is a handsome tree and especially curious to those whose familiarity with the oaks is limited to the broad-leaved species of the northern states. This tree to them seems to have the leaves of a willow and the acorns of an oak — a feature which gives it its com- mon name. Its wood is used to some extent for lumber and shingles, but mainly for fuel and charcoal. A cu. ft. when absolutely dry weighs oblong-lanceolate 21^-5 in. long, acute at both ends with very short petiole and usually bristle-tipped, entire or with slightly undulate and revolute margins : revolute in the bud and light green and pubescent when they unfold hut Anally lustrous light green, paler ,ind usually irlabrous with pubescent midribs bpneath. Floivers: stamlnate calyx yellow, pubescent. 4-.'>-lobed : pis- tillate with short glabrous peduncles and slender recurved stigmas. Fruit sessile or with short stalks, usually solitary, with subglohose or hemis- pherical pale-pubescent nut and thin flat saucer- shaped cup enveloping only its base and covered with small thin closply imbricated scales. 1. A. W., XI, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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