. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY Wood.âPale reddish brown, sapwood lighter : heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in tlrying ; used for si'.ingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Wiii/cr Buds.âLight brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. J-cdVfs.âAlternate, oblong or obo\ate, four to six inches long, one to two niches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded a; base, acute or rounded .it ape.\, sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY Wood.âPale reddish brown, sapwood lighter : heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in tlrying ; used for si'.ingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Wiii/cr Buds.âLight brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. J-cdVfs.âAlternate, oblong or obo\ate, four to six inches long, one to two niches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded a; base, acute or rounded .it ape.\, sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less three-lol)e(.i. Tliey con;e out of the butl involute, bright red, covered with rusty down abo^ e and white tonientum be- low. When full grown are green, smooth and shining above, pale green or ])ale brown, downy l)elow ; snidribs stout yellow, grooved above, primary veins slender. In atUumn they become dark red above, paie beneatii, midribs darken, then the leaf. I'etioles stout, hairy, llattened, i^rooved. Stipules about one-half inch long, cadlucous. âMay. when leaves are grown. Slaminale llowers borne on tomentose aments two to three inches long. Hracts linear-lanceo- late. pale yellow, downy, four-lobed ; stamens four to ti\e; anthers yellow. Pistillate flowers borne on slender ;e ]>eduncles. Involucral scales .are downy, about as long as the lobes ; short, rellexed, green- ish-yellow. Acorns.âl\ipcn in autumn of second year; sl;ilked, sniitary or in pairs ; nut ahnost spherical, to two-thirds incli long ; cup etnbraces one-half to niit, is cup-shaped co\'ered with light red brown, downy scales, rounded or acute at ajiex. Kernel very 1) S;!ir!-lc The Shin:;]c Oak has .a â .nxjutl; f(*r ;;ir. ll !i:is aa lauuial: lorn) wLri'. iir-ru in uinlcr, 'i) i- beautiful in saniURr ulirn c!;i'l ni i*..s uack ;i:l:cd foiia:;^;. 'J!ir Itravcj.^ roe Inn'.;, lanceolate, entire, antl
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