. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . AMP POST OAK.) A large tree, with rough flaky gray bark, and smooth graysmall often pendulous branches, reaching a height of 100 and adiameter of 3 feet. It occurs in wet soil, from Maryland southward near the coast. ROCK CHESTNUT OAK. 95 to western Florida, westward through Alabama, Mississippi, andLouisiana, to the valley of the Trinity river, Texas, and throughArkansas and southeastern Missouri to middle Tennessee, south-ern Indiana, and Illinois ; reaching its best development in thevalley of the Red river and adjacent portions of x\.rkansas a
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . AMP POST OAK.) A large tree, with rough flaky gray bark, and smooth graysmall often pendulous branches, reaching a height of 100 and adiameter of 3 feet. It occurs in wet soil, from Maryland southward near the coast. ROCK CHESTNUT OAK. 95 to western Florida, westward through Alabama, Mississippi, andLouisiana, to the valley of the Trinity river, Texas, and throughArkansas and southeastern Missouri to middle Tennessee, south-ern Indiana, and Illinois ; reaching its best development in thevalley of the Red river and adjacent portions of x\.rkansas andTexas. It is rare in the Atlantic states. In North Carolina it occurs on the oak flats of the coastal plain,and in the alluvial swamps of the rivers as far inland as Anson,Orange, and Nash counties. (Fig. 20.) The overcup oak bears acorns plentifully at intervals of 3 or -iyears, but young seedlings are infrequent. The fruit is devouredby swine, and the young plants are destroyed by browsing cattle. MAP OFNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PLAIN REGION. LEGEND Distribution of the OVERCUP OAK (Quercus lyrata, IVa//. The leaves are oblong, crowded at the ends of the branchlets,and 7 to 9-lobed, the divisions acute or blunt, entire or somewhattoothed. The large subglobose acorn is nearly covered b}- thescaly, thin, rugged, fringed cup. The light chestnut-brown winter-buds are small and egg-shaped. The overcup oak has a tap-rootand many rather deeply seated lateral roots. The wood is heavy, hard, strong, tough, close-grained, andinclined to check, and very durable in contact with the soil; richdark brown in color ; the sapwood lighter. It is used for the samepurposes as that of the white oak. Yery little of this timber has-ever been cut. Quercus prinus, Linnaeus. (rock chestnut oak. chestnut oak. buck oak.)A large tree, with deeply furrowed dark gray bark, and a 94; TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. broadly oval crown, reaching a height of 100 and a diameterof 4 feet. It occurs from southern M
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