. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. HATiTDBOOK OF TeEES OF THE ISToETHEBN StATES AND CaNADA. 167 The Post Oak is usually a tree of medium stature attaining a height of 50 or 60 ft., but in the exceptional forests of the Ohio basin it is said to attain a height of 100 ft. and ilS trunk a diameter of about 3 ft. When growing in the open fields it develops a rounded or obovoid top with stout branchlets and shining dark green foliage, which in autumn turns to various shades of yellow and brown. It is one of the most mark
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. HATiTDBOOK OF TeEES OF THE ISToETHEBN StATES AND CaNADA. 167 The Post Oak is usually a tree of medium stature attaining a height of 50 or 60 ft., but in the exceptional forests of the Ohio basin it is said to attain a height of 100 ft. and ilS trunk a diameter of about 3 ft. When growing in the open fields it develops a rounded or obovoid top with stout branchlets and shining dark green foliage, which in autumn turns to various shades of yellow and brown. It is one of the most marked of our oaks in the peculiarity of its leaves, which, tufted at the ends of the branchlets in great star-shaned clusters, suggests at once the appropriateness of Wangenheim's name, Q. stellata. It inhabits limestone ridges and sandy plains in company with the Black Jack, Eed, White and other Oaks, the Sassafras, Gums, Flowering Dogwood, Red Cedar, etc. Its heav}', hard and durable wood is valued in the manufacture of agricultural implements, casks, etc., and to some extent for furniture. It is also used extensively for railwaj' ties, fence posts, etc., and makes excellent fuel. A cubic foot Avhen absolutely dry weighs Leaves broad-obovate, 4-8 in. long, cuneate or rounded at base, deeply lyrate-pinnatifid with usually 5 (sometimes S or 7) wid^ divergent en- tire or undulate rounded lobes, the central pair much the largest and usually notched, at ma- turity firm shining dark green with scattered stellate hairs above, grayish or ye'^owish pubes- cpnt beneath: petioles and midribs pubescent. Flowers: staminate calyx yellow with .5 laciniately out lobes : stigmas short, dilated. Fruit maturing the first year, sessile or nearly so: acorn ovoid- oblong, 1/^-1 in. long, about half Inclosed by the fiemispheric cup. 1. Syn. Q. obtusiloba Michx. Q. stellata Wang. 2. A. W., IV, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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