. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WILLOW OAK WILLOW OAK Qltt'rciis p/u-7/os. A tree seventy to eighty feet high, ranging from southern New Yorl< along the inland plain to Florida, is also found in the south- western states. Hybridizes easily. Bark.—Pale reddish brown, stem of young tree smooth, that of old trees covered with shallow fissures and scaly. Branchlets slender, smooth, reddish brown, later dark brown or grayish brown. IVood.—Pale reddish brown, sapwood paler; heavy, strong, coarse-grained. Occasionally use
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WILLOW OAK WILLOW OAK Qltt'rciis p/u-7/os. A tree seventy to eighty feet high, ranging from southern New Yorl< along the inland plain to Florida, is also found in the south- western states. Hybridizes easily. Bark.—Pale reddish brown, stem of young tree smooth, that of old trees covered with shallow fissures and scaly. Branchlets slender, smooth, reddish brown, later dark brown or grayish brown. IVood.—Pale reddish brown, sapwood paler; heavy, strong, coarse-grained. Occasionally used in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. lllnlfr Buds.—Brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, linear, oblong, narrowed at both ends, some- times falcate, two to five inches long, one-half to one inch wide, wedge-shaped at base, entire or slightly undulate at margin, sharply acute at apex. They come out of the bud involute, pale ycliow green, shining above, coated with pale down beneath ; when full ^rown are light green, smooth and shining above, paler green below ; midribs yellow, rounded above, primary veins obscure. In autumn they turn pale yellow and fall late. Petioles stout, and grooved. iJtipules caducous. Fioivers.—May, when leaves are small. Staminate flowers borne in hairy slender aments two to three inches long. yellow, hairy, divided into four to five acute lobes. Stamens four to five ; anthers oblong, yel- low. Pistillate flowers are borne on short, smooth peduncles. Involucral scales are brown, hairy, as long as the calyx lobes ; stigmas bright red, re- flexed. Acorns.—Not abundant. Ripen in autumn of second year, short stalked, solitary or in pairs. Nut half-sphere, half an inch in diameter, pale yellow brown, downy, sometimes striate ; cup saucer-shaped, covers the base of nut only ; scales dark reddish Drown, thin, ovate, hairy. Kernel orange yellow and very Willow Oak, Q;iCM-f(5
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