. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY U'ooiL—Pale reddish brown, sapwood lighter ; heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in drying ; used for shingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Light brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, oblong or obo\'ate, four to six inches long, one to two inches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, acute or rounded at , sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less three-
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY U'ooiL—Pale reddish brown, sapwood lighter ; heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in drying ; used for shingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Light brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, oblong or obo\'ate, four to six inches long, one to two inches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, acute or rounded at , sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less three-lobed. They come out of the bud involute, bright red, covered with rusty down above and white tomentum be- low. When full grown are dark green, smooth and shining above, pale green or pale brown, downy below ; midribs stout yellow, grooved above, primar)' veins slender. In autumn they become dark red above, pale beneath, midribs darken, then the leaf Petioles stout, hairy, flattened, grooved. Stipules about one=half inch long, caducous. Flowers.—May, when leaves are half grown. Staminate flowers borne on tomentose aments two to three inches long. Bracts linear-lanceo- late. Calyx pale yellow, downy, four-lobed ; stamens four to five ; anthers yellow. Pistillate flowers borne on slender tomentose peduncles. Involucral scales are downy, aljout as long as the calyx lobes; stigmas short, rcflexed, green- ish-yellow. Ripen in autumn of second year ; stalked, solitary or in pairs ; nut almost spherical, one-half to two-thirds inch long ; cup embraces one-half to one-third nut, is cup-shaped covered with light red brown, downy scales, rounded or acute at apex. Kernel very Shingle Ojk, imbncana. The Shingle Oak has a smooth bark and for three-fourths of its height is laden with branches. It has an uncouth form when bare in winter, but is beautiful in summer wlien clad in its thick tul^ed fohage. Tlie leaves are long, lanceolate, entire, and of a shining green.
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