. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 684. Q. velutina. half of the dark-brown puberulent often striped ellipsoid to subglobose small ( urn. long) acorn; leaves smooth and lus- trous in age, with axillary tufts beneath, becoming yellow or pale bfuwii in autumn, the 5-7 oblong lobes coarsely toothed at sum- mit ; bark gray, dose and smooth, or in age shallowly fissured, light yellow within. — Clay or gravel, s. Mich, to Man. and la. — A me- dium-sized tree, in habit said to rese
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 684. Q. velutina. half of the dark-brown puberulent often striped ellipsoid to subglobose small ( urn. long) acorn; leaves smooth and lus- trous in age, with axillary tufts beneath, becoming yellow or pale bfuwii in autumn, the 5-7 oblong lobes coarsely toothed at sum- mit ; bark gray, dose and smooth, or in age shallowly fissured, light yellow within. — Clay or gravel, s. Mich, to Man. and la. — A me- dium-sized tree, in habit said to resemble the eastern Q. palustris. Fig. 683. 16. Q. velitina Lam. (Quercitron, Yel- Low-BARKED or Black 0.) Cup turbinate, or hemispherical with'a conical base, cm. broad, its upper pubescent thin light- ohestnut scales loosely imbricated or squar- rose when dry ; acorns ovoid to hemispherical, cm. long, light-brown, often pubescent; leaves variously divided, ordinarily with hairy tufts in the axils beneath, turning brownish, orange, or dull red in autumn ; bark dark- brown and rough, internally orange. (Q. tinctoria Bartr.; Q. coccinea, var. tinctoria A. DC.) —Dry or gravelly uplands, s. Me. to w. Ont., and southw.—The bark is largely Used in tanning. Fig. 684. Var. missouri^nsis Sarg. Leaves with permanent rusty pubescence beneath, and cup^scales tomentose. — Mo. and Ark. V 17. Q. falclta Michx. (Spanish 0.) Leaves gray- ish-downy or fulvovs underneath, S-b-lobed above (sometimes entire); the lobes prolonged, mostly nar- row and more or less scythe-shaped, especially the terminal one, entire or sparingly cut^toothed; acorn globose, 8-10 mm. long; cup saucer-shaped with a somewhat top-shaped base and about half the length of the acorn. (§. digitata Sudworth; Q. pagodae- folia Ashe.)—Dry or sandy soil, N. J. to Fla.; and from s. Ind. to Mo. and Tex. —A large or small tree, extremely variable in foliage; bark excellent for tan- ning. Fig. 685. 18. Q. il
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