. 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. SH The Oaks cral scales ovate; calyx-lobes hairy; styles short, broad, spreading, and light red. The fruit ripens in the first season, solitary or in spike-like clusters of 2 to 5, on short brown stalks; the nut is ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2 to cm. long, brown and shining, its seed sweet and hght yellow; cup hemispheric, often somewhat con- stricted at the base, to 2 cm. across, light yellow-brown and hairy inside,
. 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. SH The Oaks cral scales ovate; calyx-lobes hairy; styles short, broad, spreading, and light red. The fruit ripens in the first season, solitary or in spike-like clusters of 2 to 5, on short brown stalks; the nut is ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2 to cm. long, brown and shining, its seed sweet and hght yellow; cup hemispheric, often somewhat con- stricted at the base, to 2 cm. across, light yellow-brown and hairy inside, em- bracing about one third of the nut, covered with close, thin, brown, sharp-pointed, densely hairy scales. The wood is hard, strong and tough, close-grained, and brown or yellow-brown with a satiny surface; its specific gravity is about It has been largely used in ship building and in other structural work. The nuts were gathered and eaten by the Indians, who roasted them for food and also expressed an oil from them. These fruits are produced in great abundance and afford a valuable food for swine. This is one of the most rapid growing of the American oaks as well as the grandest and most beautiful, and in the south it is one of the highly esteemed shade trees. It often harbors quantities of air-plants. 31. TWIN LIVE OAK —Quercus geminata Small Usually a shrub, this Uve oak rarely becomes a tree, with a maximum height of 12 meters and a trunk diameter of 6 dm. It occurs in sandy scrub lands from Georgia to Florida and Mississippi. The trunk is seldom upright, but usually ascending or bent. The bark is pale gray. The twigs are rather stout, yellowish downy, becoming quite smooth and light brown, finally gray to nearly black. The leaves are narrowly oblong, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, blunt or pointed, usually gradually narrowed at the base, strongly revolute on the mar- gin. They are thin, tough and parch- ment-hke, wrinkled, reticulate, with the principal veins im
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