. 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. 290 The Oaks It is rarely planted for ornament, as the Scarlet oak and the Red oak, over which it has no advantages, much excel it in beauty. It is also called YeUow oak, Quercitron oak. Yellow-barked oak. Yellow bark. Dyer's oak, Tan bark oak, and Spotted oak. 7. GRAY OAK — Quercus borealis F. A. Michaux Quercus ambigua F. A. Michaux not H. B. K. A tree very similar to the Red oak in foliage and general appearance, but w
. 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. 290 The Oaks It is rarely planted for ornament, as the Scarlet oak and the Red oak, over which it has no advantages, much excel it in beauty. It is also called YeUow oak, Quercitron oak. Yellow-barked oak. Yellow bark. Dyer's oak, Tan bark oak, and Spotted oak. 7. GRAY OAK — Quercus borealis F. A. Michaux Quercus ambigua F. A. Michaux not H. B. K. A tree very similar to the Red oak in foliage and general appearance, but with acorns resembhng those of the Scarlet oak. It occurs from Quebec and Ontario southward to New York and Pennsylvania, and perhaps, in the mountains to North Carohna, attaining a maximum height of 18 meters and a trunk diameter of dm. The twigs are rather slender, hairy at first, becoming smooth, reddish brown or grayish brown. The winter buds are narrowly ovoid, sharp- pointed, brown and downy. The leaves are ovate to obovate in outhne; the 7 to 13 lobes are wedge-shaped, usually with several long bristle-tipped teeth, the sinuses rather narrow, ex- tending to a little beyond the middle and more or less rounded, the leaf base broadly tapering or obtuse; they are thin and firm, deep green and dull, with broad, yellowish midrib above, paler and smooth except at the axils of the veins beneath. The leaf-stalk is slender, slightly grooved, thickened at the base, 3 to 5 cm. long. The pistillate flowers are bright red with long spreading styles. The acorns, ripening in the autumn of the second season, are sohtary or 2 or 3 together; nut ovoid, about cm. long; cup top-shaped or hemispheric, to 2 cm. across, reddish brown and hairy inside, embracing one third to one half of the nut, covered with broad, blunt, reddish, rather smooth scales. The wood resembles that of the Red oak, and is used for the same purposes, but it is said to be stronger and more durable. The tree
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