. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2049. Quercus pedunculata. var. licifolia (X J^). No. 29. limbs and slender drooping branches; lvs. oblong or obovate-oblong, with 3-5 pairs of sometimes lobed-den- tate lobes, dark green and stellate-pubescent above and usually whitish tomentulose beneath, 2-4 in. long : fr. almost sessile; acorn elongated, co
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2049. Quercus pedunculata. var. licifolia (X J^). No. 29. limbs and slender drooping branches; lvs. oblong or obovate-oblong, with 3-5 pairs of sometimes lobed-den- tate lobes, dark green and stellate-pubescent above and usually whitish tomentulose beneath, 2-4 in. long : fr. almost sessile; acorn elongated, conical, lX-2 in. high, embraced about one-third by the cup; lower scales tuber- culate, upper one subulate. Calif 8:362. 3:011; 10:55, 202, 205. — has not been cult, successfully outside of Calif. 28. Alba, Linn. White Oak. Plate XXI. Figs. 1506, 2039,2041(2), 2047. Tree, to 100 ft., with stout spreading branches forming abroad, open head: bark light gray: lvs. obovate or oblong - obovate, narrowed at the base, with 3-8 pairs of rather narrow obtuse and sometimes toothed lobes, pubescent when young, soon glabrous, bright green above, glaucescent beneath; fr. short- or long-stalked; acorn oblong-ovate, 1 in. high, embraced about one-fourth by the shallow cup; scales closely appressed. Me. to Fla., west to Minn, and Tex. 8:356, 357. Em. 1:145. :91; 4:6,7; 5:259,450. — The White Oak is one (if the noblest trees of the northern states and a beau- tiful park tree, where space can be allowed for its full development ; the foliage assumes a beautiful deep vinous red or violet-purple color in fall. Var. repanda, Michx., is a form in which the lvs. have rather shallow sinuses and the fruits are usually short-stalked. Var. pinnatifida, Michx., has the lvs. deeply piunatifid with narrow often lobed or toothed lobes and the fruits usually slender-stalked. 8:358. Hybrids of this species with Q. macrocarpa, Prinus and sfeUata are know
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