. 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. Rock Chestnut Oak 329 Michigan and from Ohio and Indiana. Most of the common names of the Yelr. low oak are probably applied to this tree also. The bark is flaky, scaly and gray. The smooth twigs are yellowish brown, be- coming gray. The leaves are obovate or oblong-obovate, broadest above the middle, the margin coarsely and bluntly or sharply toothed, the apex taper- pointed, the base tapering or rounded; they are thin b
. 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. Rock Chestnut Oak 329 Michigan and from Ohio and Indiana. Most of the common names of the Yelr. low oak are probably applied to this tree also. The bark is flaky, scaly and gray. The smooth twigs are yellowish brown, be- coming gray. The leaves are obovate or oblong-obovate, broadest above the middle, the margin coarsely and bluntly or sharply toothed, the apex taper- pointed, the base tapering or rounded; they are thin but firm, yellow-green and smooth above, paler, smooth or slightly hairy, with straw-colored prominent venation beneath, turning bright yellow before falling in the au- tumn; the leaf-stalk is slender, 2 to 3 cm. long, thickened and darkened at the base. The fruit ripens the first autumn, is sessile, or very shbrt- stalked; nut ovoid, to 2 cm. long, light brown, hairy at the apex; cup deeply saucer-shaped, 12 to 15 mm. across, light brown and roughish inside, thin, em- bracing one third to one half the nut and covered with small, thick, grayish-hairy scales. The wood is similar to that of the Yellow oak and used indiscriminately as Fig. 285. — Alexander's Oak. 49. ROCK CHESTNUT OAK — Quercus Prinus Linnaeus A tree usually of sterile hillsides from Maine to Ontario, south to New Jersey, Virginia, and in the mountains to Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, reaching a maxi- mum height of 30 meters, with a trunk di- ameter of 2 m. The trunk is usually divided rather low down into several principal branches, the tree, when not crowded, sometimes broader than high. The bark is up to 5 cm. thick, deeply fissured into thick roughish ridges of a brown to nearly black color; on younger stems it is thirmer, quite smooth, brownish and some- what shining. The twigs are stout, purplish green, usually smooth, passing through vari- ous shades of brown to gray or dark brown. Fig. 286.
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