. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . winter buds are large, conical and covered withbrownish down. The root system consists of deep lateral roots. The wood is heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, compact, andlight brown in color ; the sapwood somewhat lighter. It is largelyused for fuel. The ash is rich in alkali and the bark in tannin. Quercus dig^itata, Sudworth.* (SPANISH OAK. RED OAK.) A tree, with a large spreading top, nearly black rough bark, andsmooth dark gray branches, reaching a height of 100 and adiameter of 6 feet. It occurs from southern jSTew Jersey south to middle Flor
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . winter buds are large, conical and covered withbrownish down. The root system consists of deep lateral roots. The wood is heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, compact, andlight brown in color ; the sapwood somewhat lighter. It is largelyused for fuel. The ash is rich in alkali and the bark in tannin. Quercus dig^itata, Sudworth.* (SPANISH OAK. RED OAK.) A tree, with a large spreading top, nearly black rough bark, andsmooth dark gray branches, reaching a height of 100 and adiameter of 6 feet. It occurs from southern jSTew Jersey south to middle Florida^through th(3 Gulf states to the Brazos river, Texas, and throughArkansas and southeastern Missouri to central Tennessee andKentucky, southern Illinois and Indiana ; reaching its best devel-opment in the South Atlantic and Gulf states. In North Carolina where it attains an average height of 70 to80 and a diameter of 3 to 4 feet, growing on dry heavy soils, it isvery common throughout, (lig. 26,) although rather less so towardthe LEGENDDistribution of the SPANISH OAK(Quercus digitata, Sad.) Acorns are borne in abundan(;e every 3 or 4 years, and young * Quercus cuneata, Wangenheiin and Q. falcata Micliaux. 104 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLIJSTA. seedlings are plentiful in rather dry open woods. On the dry,rocky uplands of the counties in the middle part of the State, aconsiderable pai-t of the second growth is composed of this over 3 feet in diameter are generally not sound at the shoots are very abundant around the stumps of smallertrees. This tree is sensitive to late frosts. The leaves are divided into 3 to 5 prolonged, mostly narrow,bristle-tipped lobes, and are downj^ on the lower surface. Theshort-stemmed fruit consists of a small globose acorn half enclosedin a somewhat top-shaped cup. The light brown winter-buds arecovered with a light reddish down. The Spanish oak has, inaddition to many deeply roots, numerous
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