. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. white-tomentose beneath or at length smoothish, the lobes triangular to oblong, acute or obtuse, entire or sparingly toothed; cup round-ovoid, thin, with rugged pointed scales ; acorn about 2 cm. long. — River swamps, N. J. to Ind., Mo., and southw. Fig. 672. 4. Q. macrocdrpa Michx. (Bdr O., Over- cup or Mossr-cup 0.) Leaves obovate or oblong, lyrately pinnatifid or deeply sinuate-lobed, or nearly parted, sometimes nearly entire, irregular, down
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. white-tomentose beneath or at length smoothish, the lobes triangular to oblong, acute or obtuse, entire or sparingly toothed; cup round-ovoid, thin, with rugged pointed scales ; acorn about 2 cm. long. — River swamps, N. J. to Ind., Mo., and southw. Fig. 672. 4. Q. macrocdrpa Michx. (Bdr O., Over- cup or Mossr-cup 0.) Leaves obovate or oblong, lyrately pinnatifid or deeply sinuate-lobed, or nearly parted, sometimes nearly entire, irregular, downy or pale beneath; the lobes sparingly and obtusely toothed, or the smaller ones entire; cup deep, thick and woody (2-5 cm. across), with hard and thick pointed conspicu- ously imbricated scales, the upper Q. lyrata. ^^^g awned, usu- ally making a mossy-fringed border; acorn broadly ovoid, half immersed in or entirely inclosed by the oup.—Rich soil, N. S. to Man., s. to w. Mass., Ky., and Tex. — A large and valuable tree ; ex- tremely variable in the size and fringe of the cups. Fig. 673. Var. olivaeformis (Michx. f.) Gray is a narrower-leaved form with small sub- cylindric acorns. 5. Q. bicolor Willd. (Swamp White 0.) Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, wedge-shaped at base, ^^^ q n,acrocarpa Hoarsely sinuate-crenate and often rather pinnati- fid than toothed, usually soft-downy and white-hoary beneath, the primary veins lax and little prominent; cup \—l as long as the acorn, woody, the upper scales awn-pointed, sometimes forming a mossy-fringed margin; acorn 2-3 cm. long. (O. platanoides Sud- worth.) — Borders of streams and swamps, s. Me. to Ont., Minn., and southw. — A large tree, with flaky Fig. 674. Q. Michauxii (Basket 0., O.) Leaves or obovate, acute, obtuse, or even cordate at ' base, regularly dentate (seldom deeply), rather rigid, commonly tomentose beneath; stamens usually 10; fruit short-pedunoled ; cup shallow, tuberoulate with hard and stout acute scale
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