. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 126 NaTIKAI. HiSTOUY SlRVKY Uses: The hard and coarse-grained but not very durable, Hght-red wood of the Spanish Oak is made into rough lumber; and, because it is less subject to defects than lumber from other red oaks, it finds consider- able use in the manufacture of chairs, tables, and similar articles. The bark is rich in tannin. QUERCUS RUBRA Linnaeus Wiriety PAGODAEFOLIA Ashe Swamp Spanish Oak Red Oak The Swamp Spanish Oak, though held as a variety of the Spanish Oak. is sufiiciently dififerent from it to be considered as
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 126 NaTIKAI. HiSTOUY SlRVKY Uses: The hard and coarse-grained but not very durable, Hght-red wood of the Spanish Oak is made into rough lumber; and, because it is less subject to defects than lumber from other red oaks, it finds consider- able use in the manufacture of chairs, tables, and similar articles. The bark is rich in tannin. QUERCUS RUBRA Linnaeus Wiriety PAGODAEFOLIA Ashe Swamp Spanish Oak Red Oak The Swamp Spanish Oak, though held as a variety of the Spanish Oak. is sufiiciently dififerent from it to be considered as a separate tree. It is much larger than the Spanish Oak; and, though of the same habit of growth, its leaves are from 5- to 11-lobed and are much less deeply cut between the lobes. They measure 6 to 8 inches long by 5 to 6 inches wide and. before falling, they turn bright- yellow. The flowers and acorns are similar to those of the Spanish Oak ; but the fine-hairy, reddish-brown branchlets bear prominently 4-angled buds }i inch long. The bark on the trimks, which sometimes grow to a diameter of 4 or 5 feet, is about an inch thick and breaks, on the surface, into plate-like scales. The height of the tree is often 100 feet or more. Distribution: The Swamp Span- ish Oak, a tree of rich bottomlands, ranges from Virginia southward to Florida and westward to Arkansas and INIissouri. In Illinois, it is con- fined to the southern part of the State; but there, though apparently less widely distributed than the Span- ish Oak, it is a much more important Distribution of the Swamp tree. According to Hall and Ingall's^ Spanish Oak. vtY^oxi of lOH. it made up 20 per cent of the bottomland stand in White County. 12 per cent in Franklin County, and 10 per cent in Hardin, Gallatin, and Saline counties. In these regions. Fk;. 46. ' in. .St. Lab. Nat. Hist. BuH. Vol. 9. Art. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabil
Size: 1170px × 2137px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booka, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectnaturalhistory
