. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Yellow Oak 327 46. CHINQUAPIN OAK — Quercus prinoides WiUdenow This spreading shrub is of wide distribution from Maine to Minnesota, North Carohna, Alabama, and Texas; it sometimes becomes tree-like and 5 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of dm. It is also called Scrub chestnut oak and Dwarf chinquapin oak. The Ught brown bark is scaly. The twigs are slender, dark reddish green and scurfy, soon becoming smooth, pass
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Yellow Oak 327 46. CHINQUAPIN OAK — Quercus prinoides WiUdenow This spreading shrub is of wide distribution from Maine to Minnesota, North Carohna, Alabama, and Texas; it sometimes becomes tree-like and 5 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of dm. It is also called Scrub chestnut oak and Dwarf chinquapin oak. The Ught brown bark is scaly. The twigs are slender, dark reddish green and scurfy, soon becoming smooth, passing through various shades of brown to dark brown. The winter buds are ovoid to subglobose, usually blimt, about 3 mm. long and brown. The leaves are obovate, oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, to dm. long, mostly sharp-pointed at the apex, nar- rowed or rounded at the base, coarsely wavy toothed; they are thin and firm, dark yellow- ish green, smooth and faintly shining above, grayish and finely hairy beneath, the midrib narrow and yellow; they turn bright scarlet to yellow before falling in the autumn; the leaf-stalk is stout, nearly smooth, flattened and grooved, 5 to 15 mm. long. The flowers ap- pear in May or June when the leaves are un- folding, the staminate in hairy catkins 4 to 6 cm. long; calyx 4- to 9-lobed, yellowish green and hairy; stamens much exserted, their anthers notched, yellow and smooth. The pistillate flowers are whitish hairy, the styles very short and broad-spreading, hght red. The fruit, ripening in the autumn of the first season, is produced in great abundance, sessile or nearly so; nut oblong to ovoid, to cm. long, hairy near the apex, light brown and shining, its seed sweet; cup hemispheric, 13 to 18 mm. across, thin and embracing nearly one half of the nut,'covered by ovate, sharp-pointed hoary scales. The wood is too meager to be of economic value except for fuel. As a shrub it affords variety to plantations by its abundant fruit an
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