. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. Q. palustriB. tending to be deeper and somewhat turbinate (Q. ambigua and borealis Miehx. f.; Q. coccinea, var. ambigua Gray.) 12. Q. paliJstris Muench. (Swamp Spanish or Vin O.) Cup flat-saucer-shaped, sometimes contracted into a short scaly base or stalk, fine-scaled, very much shorter than the usually glo- bose or depressed acorn, which is cm. long; leaves deeply pinnatifid with diver- gent lobes and broad rounded sinuses.—Low grounds,
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. Q. palustriB. tending to be deeper and somewhat turbinate (Q. ambigua and borealis Miehx. f.; Q. coccinea, var. ambigua Gray.) 12. Q. paliJstris Muench. (Swamp Spanish or Vin O.) Cup flat-saucer-shaped, sometimes contracted into a short scaly base or stalk, fine-scaled, very much shorter than the usually glo- bose or depressed acorn, which is cm. long; leaves deeply pinnatifid with diver- gent lobes and broad rounded sinuses.—Low grounds, chiefly on the coastal plain and in the Miss, basin ; Mass. to Va., w. to Kan. and Ark. Fig. 681. Q. coccinea Muench. (Scarlet O.) Cnp top- shaped, or hemispherical with a conical base ( cm. broad), coarsely scaly, covering half or more of the subglobose or short ovoid acorn ( cm. long), the scales brown, oppressed and glabrate; leaves, at least on full-grown trees, bright green, shining above, glabrous beneath, turning red in autumn, deeply pinnatifid, the slender lobes divergent and sparingly cut-toothed ; buds small; bark of the trunk gray, the interior reddish. — Dry light soil, s. Me. to Ont., Minn., and Neb., s. to N. C. and 111., chiefly eastvf. Fig. 682. 14. Q. tezHna Buckley. (Red 0.) Cvp deeply saucer-shaped or somewhat turbinate, cm. broad, the light brown or ashy scales per- manently tomentulose, except on the margin, covering one third to one half of the ovoid large ( cm. long) acorn; leaves In maturity bright green and glabrovis above, paler and with axillary tufts of hairs beneath, turning dark red or brown in autumn, the 5-9 oblong lobes Q. coodnea. 080. Q. slightly broadened upward and toothed at summit; bark gray, becoming in old trees reddish-brovfn and broken into plates. — Bottom-lands and limestone hills, Ind. to la., s. to N. C, Fla., and Tex.—A large tree with conspicuously buttressed 16. Q. ellipsoiaails E. J.
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