. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY Ba?-k.—Light brown ; branchlets at first dark green and scurfy, finally reddish brown or ashen gray ; charged with tannic acid. Winter Buds.—Light brown, ovate or globose, obtuse, one-eighth of an inch long". Leaves.—Alternate, obovate or oblong, three to six inches long, one to three inches wide, wedge-shaped at base, coarsely undulate-toothed with rounded or acute teeth, acute or acuminate apex ; midrib and primary veins conspicuous. They come out of the bud convolut
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OAK FAMILY Ba?-k.—Light brown ; branchlets at first dark green and scurfy, finally reddish brown or ashen gray ; charged with tannic acid. Winter Buds.—Light brown, ovate or globose, obtuse, one-eighth of an inch long". Leaves.—Alternate, obovate or oblong, three to six inches long, one to three inches wide, wedge-shaped at base, coarsely undulate-toothed with rounded or acute teeth, acute or acuminate apex ; midrib and primary veins conspicuous. They come out of the bud convolute, reddish yellow, hairy above, coated with silver tomentum below, with dark glands at tlie points of the teeth, when full grown dark yellow green, rather shining above, pale green or silvery white, covered with soft fine pubescence below. In autumn they turn bright orange and scarlet. Petioles stout, short, flattened, grooved ; stipules ca- ducous. Flowers.—Appear when leaves are one-third grown. Staminate aments one and one-half to two and one-half inches long, hairy. Calyx is pale yellow green, hairy, five to nine-lobed. Stamens five to nine ; filaments slender ; anthers yel- low. Pistillate flowers on short pedun- cles ; involucral scales covered with sil- very white tomentum ; stigmas bright red. Acorns.—Abundant, annual, sessile or stalked ; nut oval, rounded or obtuse at apex which is covered with white down, pale chestnut brown, shining, one-half to three-fourths of an inch long; Chinquapin Oak, Oucrcu^ priiioidcs. Seed Sweet ; Cup COVCrS One-half tO tWO- Acorns 'A' to y/ long. thirds of the nut, thin, deeply cup- shaped, light brown and downy inside, hoary with tomentum outside. Scales loosely imbricated, red- tipped, acute, thickened toward the base of the cup. The acorns are not only eaten by swine and cattle but the wild creatures like them as well. SWAMP WHITE OAK Qiicrcus platanoides. Querciis buolor. Ordinarily sixty to seventy feet high maximum height,
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