. 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. Golden-Leaf Chinquapin 275 hairy beneath; the stout leaf-stalk is grooved, and from 5 to 10 mm. long. The leaves turn yellow at the end of their second year, and gradually fall o£E; the stipules are brown and fall very early. The flowers are monoecious, appearing during the summer, a few continuing to unfold for several months afterward. The staminate are in erect or spreading elongated catkins with a stout scurfy axis, a
. 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. Golden-Leaf Chinquapin 275 hairy beneath; the stout leaf-stalk is grooved, and from 5 to 10 mm. long. The leaves turn yellow at the end of their second year, and gradually fall o£E; the stipules are brown and fall very early. The flowers are monoecious, appearing during the summer, a few continuing to unfold for several months afterward. The staminate are in erect or spreading elongated catkins with a stout scurfy axis, about 7 cm. long, clustered at the ends of the branchlets and composed of 3-flowered clusters in the axils of ovate sharp-pointed scales; the perianth is bell- shaped, deeply 5-lobed or 6-lobed; stamens 10 to 12, their filaments thread-like, elongated; anthers oblong, 2-celled, opening lengthwise; ovary rudimentary and. Fig. 232. — Golden-leaf Chinquapin. hairy. The pistillate flowers are in clusters of 2 or 3, or solitary, at the base of some of the lower catkins, enclosed in an involucre of scales; the globose-oblong perianth is 6-lobed; abortive stamens as many as the perianth lobes and opposite them; ovary inferior, sessile, conic, hairy; stigmas slightly spreading. The fruit, ripening in the autumn of the second season, is globose, to 4 cm. in diameter, sessile, soHtary or clustered, covered by long, slender, stiff, sharp spines, dehiscent into 4 irregular valves, coated with long hairs on the inside and containing i nut or sometimes 2, the nuts ovoid, bluntly 3-angled, with a large basal scar, pale hairy near the apex, otherwise brown and shining; the shell is thick with a thin papery irmer coat; the seed fills the cavity, and is sweet and edible. The wood is soft, close-grained, weak, light reddish brown; its specific gravity is about On account of its lack of strength it is seldom used except for Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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