. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. nops QUERCUS erect catkins with 4-7-parte(l calyx and 4-12, usually 6, stamens; pistillate in 1-many-fld. spikes in the axils of the young Ivs., rarely at the base of the axillary stami- nate catkins, each flower consisting of an incompletely 3-celled ovary, surrounded by imbricate bracts: fr. a 1-seeded subglo
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. nops QUERCUS erect catkins with 4-7-parte(l calyx and 4-12, usually 6, stamens; pistillate in 1-many-fld. spikes in the axils of the young Ivs., rarely at the base of the axillary stami- nate catkins, each flower consisting of an incompletely 3-celled ovary, surrounded by imbricate bracts: fr. a 1-seeded subglobose to oblong nut, surrounded at the base or sometimes al- most inclosed by a cup-like involucre. The numerous species have been divided â II American spe- clong to the sub- . 'i'l' I- '.'â /,....< is Greek for '! . !. !, , 1. rized by slender, : I :ii-». separate axil- |.i-I ill I'. -|i;. (leiixiflorn belongs to Pasania, li has erect staminate catkins, some bear- lislillate lis. at their base, like the catkins 'astanea. Oyclobalanus and Cyclobala- is have the scales of the cup connate into putric rings; the intiorescence of the tirst bein? similar to that of Pasania, of the second to Chlamydobalanus is much I ., ,,i, iiinii-. but the nut is wholly in- clii ; lie cup. Of Lithocarpus, Witt, I I ,1 1, .Mjnnate with the cup, but oihrr .; i 111., Ill, last iiaini'd subgenus, no sp, is in I' Ih,' ,:( the subgenus Lepidobalni i, !: ilid into two sections, â Leu,,, h ^[(â Ianoba- lanus. In the fonin r. hiiii-iiil' ihf- White Oak tribe, the aconi> niauni- lin- lirst year (Fig. 2039). In the latter, comprising the Black Oaks, the acorns mature the second year (Fig. 2040). Besides the 300 species, about 40 hybrids have been recorded. The latest monograph of the whole genus is by A. De(' in Proilromus, vol. 16, 2, pp. 1-10,S (18t;). Important illustrated works I )alis an- A. .Michaux. "
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