. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. WILLOW OAK WILLOW OAK Qu&cjis phifUos. A tree seventy to eighty feet high, ranging from soiithern New York along the inland plain to Florida, is also found in the south- western states. Hybridizes easily. Bark.—Pale reddish brown, stem of young tree smooth, that of old trees covered with shallow fissures and scaly. Branchlets slender, smooth, reddish brown, later dark brown or grayish brown. Wood.—Pale reddish brown, sapwood paler; heavy, strong, coarse-grained. Occasionally used
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. WILLOW OAK WILLOW OAK Qu&cjis phifUos. A tree seventy to eighty feet high, ranging from soiithern New York along the inland plain to Florida, is also found in the south- western states. Hybridizes easily. Bark.—Pale reddish brown, stem of young tree smooth, that of old trees covered with shallow fissures and scaly. Branchlets slender, smooth, reddish brown, later dark brown or grayish brown. Wood.—Pale reddish brown, sapwood paler; heavy, strong, coarse-grained. Occasionally used in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, linear, oblong, narrowed at both ends, some- times falcate, two to five inches long, one-half to one inch wide, wedge-shaped at base, entire or slightly undulate at margin, sharply acute at apex. They come out of the bud involute, pale yellow green, shining above, coated with pale down beneath ; when full grown are light green, smooth and shining above, paler green below ; midribs yellow, rounded above, primary veins obscure. In autumn they turn pale yellow and fall late. Petioles stout, and grooved. Stipules caducous. Flowers.—May, when leaves are small. Staminate flowers borne in hairy slender aments two to three inches long. Calyx yellow, hairy, divided into four to five acute lobes. Stamens four to five ; anthers oblong, yel- low. Pistillate flowers are borne on short, smooth peduncles. Involucral scales are brown, hairy, as long as the calyx lobes; stigmas bright red, re- flexed. Willow Oak, Qiicrriis Acorns.—Not abundant. Ripen in autumn of pheiios. Acorns Second year, short stalked, solitary or in pairs. Yi' in diameter. Nut half-Sphere, half an inch in diameter, pale yellow brown, downy, sometimes striate ; cup saucer-shaped, covers the base of nut only ; scales dark reddish brown, thin, ovate, hairy. Kernel orange
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