. 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. 2/2 The Chestnuts In addition to the two arborescent species, a low shrub, Castanea nana Muhlenberg, also called Chinquapin, occurs in sandy barrens of the Gulf States; it has underground stems, but may not be distinct from C. pumila. Our arborescent species are: Leaves densely tomentose beneath; small tree or shrub. Leaves smooth on both sides; large forest tree. 1. C. pumila. 2. C. dentata. I. CHINQUAPIN — Castanea pumi
. 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. 2/2 The Chestnuts In addition to the two arborescent species, a low shrub, Castanea nana Muhlenberg, also called Chinquapin, occurs in sandy barrens of the Gulf States; it has underground stems, but may not be distinct from C. pumila. Our arborescent species are: Leaves densely tomentose beneath; small tree or shrub. Leaves smooth on both sides; large forest tree. 1. C. pumila. 2. C. dentata. I. CHINQUAPIN — Castanea pumila (Linnaeus) Miller Fagus pumila Linnaeus This small tree, or more often a shrub, of dry, sandy soils, from New Jersey to Indiana and southward to Florida, Missouri and Texas, reaches its greatest development in Arkansas, where it attains a maximum height of about i6 meters, vdth a trunk diameter of i m. The trunk is usually short. The branches are slender and spreading, forming a roimdish tree. The bark is about i6 mm. thick, somewhat fur- rowed and broken into loose plates of a Ught brown color. The twigs are slender, pale woolly at first, soon becoming smoothish, red-brown, and finally darker brown and bearing many small lenticels; buds axillary, ovoid 4 mm. long and covered vrath scurfy red scales; there are no terminal buds. The leaves are thick and firm, oblong or obovate, sharp-pointed or rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed toward the often imequal, roimded or cuneate base, sharply toothed on the margin, reddish tinged when unfolding, becoming yellovrish green, smooth and shining above, pale, finely hairy, and prominendy straight-veined be- neath^ The leaf-stalk is stout, flattened above, hairy, 6 to 12 mm. long; the yel- lowish green stipules are smooth and soon fall away. The flowers appear in May or June, the staminate catkins more or less spreading, 10 to 20 cm. long, vrith a stout hairy axis; the upper catkins are from 5 to 15 cm. long, bearing the pistillate
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