. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6i6 FAGACEAE. Vol. 2. Castanea pumila (L.) Mill. Chinquapin. Fig- I5I3- Fagus pumila L. Sp. PI. 998. 1753. Castanea pumila Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. A shrub or small tree, sometimes 45° high and with Leaves oblong, acute at both ends, sharply serrate with a trunk 30 in diameter, the young shoots puberulent. ascending, or divergent teeth, dark gr
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6i6 FAGACEAE. Vol. 2. Castanea pumila (L.) Mill. Chinquapin. Fig- I5I3- Fagus pumila L. Sp. PI. 998. 1753. Castanea pumila Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. A shrub or small tree, sometimes 45° high and with Leaves oblong, acute at both ends, sharply serrate with a trunk 30 in diameter, the young shoots puberulent. ascending, or divergent teeth, dark green and glabrous above, densely white-tomentulose beneath, 3'-6' long, i'-2i' wide; staminate aments erect or somewhat spreading, 3-5' long, 3"-4" in diameter; burs i¥ in diameter or less, commonly spicate, enclosing a soli- tary ovoid brown nut (rarely 2); seed very sweet. In dry soil, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Missouri, Florida and Texas. Wood strong, coarse-grained,- dark brown; weight per cubic foot 37 lbs. June. Nuts ripe Sept. 3. QUERCUS (Tourn.) L. Sp. PI. 994. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with pinnatifid lobed dentate crenate or entire leaves, deciduous or in some species persistent. Flowers very small, green or yellowish, appearing with or before the leaves, the staminate numerous in slender mostly drooping aments, the pistillate soli- tary in many-bracted involucres borne on the twigs of the preceding season or on the young shoots. Staminate flowers subtended by caducous bracts, consisting of a mostly 6-lobed campanulate perianth and 3-12 stamens with filiform filaments, sometimes also with an abor- tive pilose ovary. Pistillate flowers involucrate,with an urn-shaped or oblong calyx, adnate to a mostly 3-celled ovary; ovules 2 in each cavity of the ovary, rarely more than I in each ovary maturing; styles as many as the ovary-cavities, short, erect or recurved. Fruit con- sisting of the imbricated and more or less united bracts of the involucre (cup), subten
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