. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 3o8 The Oaks autumn of the second year, is sessile or nearly so; nut oblong-oval, i8 to 35 mm. long, brown, often striped, the apex hairy; shell thin and hard, slightly hairy within; cup top-shaped, deeply saucer-shaped, or sometimes higher than wide, 12 to 15 mm. across, greenish and hairy within, thick and embracing one third to one half the nut, covered by thin, brown somewhat hairy scales. The wood is very hard and st
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 3o8 The Oaks autumn of the second year, is sessile or nearly so; nut oblong-oval, i8 to 35 mm. long, brown, often striped, the apex hairy; shell thin and hard, slightly hairy within; cup top-shaped, deeply saucer-shaped, or sometimes higher than wide, 12 to 15 mm. across, greenish and hairy within, thick and embracing one third to one half the nut, covered by thin, brown somewhat hairy scales. The wood is very hard and strong, close-grained, light reddish brown; its specific gravity is about It is used for fuel. Abram's oak, Q. Morehus Kellogg, is supposed to be a hybrid with the Cali- fornia black oak, Q. Kelloggii Newberry. Price's oak, Q. Pricei Sudworth recently described, and perhaps distinct, has saucer-shaped acom-cups. 25. MYRTLE OAK — Quercus myrtdfoUa Willdenow Also called Scrub oak, this much branched evergreen shrub, rarely becomes a tree 6 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of i dm., growing on dry sandy ridges along the coast and adjacent islands from South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. The bark is slightly furrowed near the base, otherwise it is smooth and dark brown. The twigs are slender, hairy at first, but becoming smooth, light brown to dark gray. The winter buds are ovoid or oval, narrowed to a sharp point, the scales close and brown. The leaves are obovate or oval, 2 to 5 cm. long, blunt or bristle- pointed, variously wedge-shaped, roxmded or sometimes heart-shaped at the base, entire on young shoots, sometimes wavy or toothed on the revolute margin. They are thick and leathery, shining, dark green and smooth with a yellowish midrib and prominent venation above, yellowish green or brownish, smooth or some- what hairy, especially at the axils of. Fig. 260. — Myrtle Oak. the principal veins beneath, persisting until the second season, when they gradually fall
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