. 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. 3i6 The Oaks is very heavy, its specific gravity being a trifle over It checks badly on drying, is very difficult to split and is utilized only as fuel. 33. NET LEAF OAK âQuercns reticulata Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth In Mexico this tree attains much greater dimensions than in our area, wherein it occurs in the mountains of southern New Mexico and Arizona, seldom attaining a height of 9 meters, with a trunk diame
. 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. 3i6 The Oaks is very heavy, its specific gravity being a trifle over It checks badly on drying, is very difficult to split and is utilized only as fuel. 33. NET LEAF OAK âQuercns reticulata Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth In Mexico this tree attains much greater dimensions than in our area, wherein it occurs in the mountains of southern New Mexico and Arizona, seldom attaining a height of 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm., but is usually a shrub. The bark is about 6 mm. thick, close, thin, scaly, of various shades of brown. The twigs are stout, densely hairy at first, becoming less so, orange colored, ulti- mately light brown. The winter buds are ovoid, 3 mm. long, reddish or brown. The leaves are broadly obovate or oblong-obovate, 3 to 12 cm. long, blunt, rounded or sometimes sharp- pointed at the apex, heart-shaped or sometimes rounded at the narrowed base, somewhat toothed above the middle with sharp or bristle-tipped teeth or entire, the margin sUghtly revolute; they are thick, firm, and stiff, dark green with scattered hairs but shining when old above, paler and thickly hairy with stout midrib and prominently reticulate venation beneath, persistent until the new leaves form; the petiole is stout, 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers appear from April to Jime, the staminate in Fig. 260. â Net Leaf Oak. , . i r \. â ^^ ⢠i. 2. clusters of a few hairy catkins about 3 cm. long; calyx 5- to 7-lobed, hairy and yellow; stamens exserted, their anthers oblong, notched, smooth and yellow. The pistillate flowers are in spike-like clusters on long stalks which, like the involucral scales, are woolly; styles short, spread- ing, and dark red. The fruit is in spikes or only 2 together, rarely soUtary; nut oblong, 12 to 15 nun. long, hairy at the apex; cup deeply saucer-shaped or hemis- pheric,
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