. 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. White Oak 343 and smooth beneath, the midrib stout and bright yellow, the venation prominent; they turn deep red before falhng in late autumn; the leaf-stalk is stout, flattened and grooved above, i to 2 cm. long. The flowers appear when the leaves are about one third unfolded, the staminate cat- kins 5 to 7 cm. long; calyx bright yellow and hairy; stamens shghtly exserted; anthers broadly oblong and notched. The pistilla
. 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. White Oak 343 and smooth beneath, the midrib stout and bright yellow, the venation prominent; they turn deep red before falhng in late autumn; the leaf-stalk is stout, flattened and grooved above, i to 2 cm. long. The flowers appear when the leaves are about one third unfolded, the staminate cat- kins 5 to 7 cm. long; calyx bright yellow and hairy; stamens shghtly exserted; anthers broadly oblong and notched. The pistillate flowers are short- or long-stalked; involu- cral scales broadly ovate; calyx-lobes ovate, sharp-pointed and hairy; styles very short, spreading and red. The fruit ripens in the early autumn of the first season, is sessile or sometimes stalked, light brown and shining; seed rather sweet; cup saucer-shaped or shallowly hemispheric, to 2 cm. across, embracing one fourth to one third of the nut, covered by thickened or tuberculate woolly scales, those near the top of the cup thinner. Fig. Oak. The wood is hard, strong and tough, close-grained and light brown; its specific gravity is about It is one of the most important of American timbers, being largely used in general construction, interior finishing and for furniture, cooper- age, carriages and agricultural implements, railroad ties, split baskets, and is pre- ferred over many other woods for fuel. Probable hybrids have been attributed to this species with the Rock chestnut oak, Q. Prinus Linnaeus, from three or four widely separated stations; with the Bur oak, Q. macrocarpa Michaux, from Vermont and Illinois, with the Post oak, Q. stellata Wangenheim, from the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Missouri, with the Yellow chestnut oak, Q. Muhlenbergii Engelmann, in Missouri; with the Cow oak, Q. Michauxii Nuttall, from North Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t
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