. 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. 286 The Oaks 4- SCHNECK'S OAK —Quercus Schneckii Britton Qtiercus texana Sargent, not Buckley This large tree, greatly resembling the Pin oak in general appearance, occurs from North Carolina to Illinois, Iowa and southward to Florida and Texas. Its maximum height is 65 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. The tnmk is much buttressed, tall and straight. The branches are tough, pendulous below, spreading above, the tree
. 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. 286 The Oaks 4- SCHNECK'S OAK —Quercus Schneckii Britton Qtiercus texana Sargent, not Buckley This large tree, greatly resembling the Pin oak in general appearance, occurs from North Carolina to Illinois, Iowa and southward to Florida and Texas. Its maximum height is 65 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. The tnmk is much buttressed, tall and straight. The branches are tough, pendulous below, spreading above, the tree usually round-topped. The bark is sparsely furrowed into broad ridges of a reddish brown color, or on younger stems smooth and gray. The twigs are stout and brittle, hairy at first, soon becoming smooth, light green, orange or reddish brown, and finally brown or gray. The winter buds are ovoid or oblong, about 4 mm. long, pointed or rounded at the apex. The leaves are ovate to obovate in outline, 6 to 20 cm. long, the 5 to 9 lobes oblong to triangular, spreading or ascending, bristle-tipped, sometimes toothed, their sinuses usually wide and rounded, extended about half-way to the midrib or more; they are tapering at the base, thin, bright dark green and shining above, paler and smooth, ex- cept for tufts of hairs at the axils of the princi- pal veins, beneath. The leaf-stalk is slender, 2 to 5 cm. long. The flowers appear in the spring, the pistillate ones having rather short, spreading, light red styles. The short-stalked fruit ripens in the autumn of the second season; nut ovoid, to cm. long, reddish brown, sometimes striped with darker lines; cup embracing about one third of the nut, deeply sau- cer-shaped, its scales light brown, blimt and woolly. The wood is similar to that of the eastern Red oak and is used as such, being considered by lumbermen as of better grade and more Fig. 238. — Schneck's Oak. 5. TURKEY OAK —Quercus Catesbai Michaux A small
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