. 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. 677. Q. prinoides. 3 cm. long.—Borders of streams and swamps, Del. to Mo., and southw. Fig. 675. 7. Q. Muhlenbfirgii Engelm. (Yellow 0., Cbbst- NUT 0.) Leaves (1-2 dm. long) slender-petioled, often oblong or even lanceolate, usually acute or pointed, mostly obtuse or rounded at base, almost equally and rather sharply toothed; cup subsessile, shallow, thin, of small oppressed scales; acorn glo- bose or obovoid, cm. long. {Q. acuminata Houba
. 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. 677. Q. prinoides. 3 cm. long.—Borders of streams and swamps, Del. to Mo., and southw. Fig. 675. 7. Q. Muhlenbfirgii Engelm. (Yellow 0., Cbbst- NUT 0.) Leaves (1-2 dm. long) slender-petioled, often oblong or even lanceolate, usually acute or pointed, mostly obtuse or rounded at base, almost equally and rather sharply toothed; cup subsessile, shallow, thin, of small oppressed scales; acorn glo- bose or obovoid, cm. long. {Q. acuminata Houba.) — Dry limestone hillsides and rich bottoms, Vt. to Del., along the mts. to n. Ala., w. to Minn., 6. Neb., and Tex.—A tall tree, with thin eventually flaky bark. Fig. 676. 8. Q. prinoides Willd. Like the last, but of low stature (usually 1-3 m. high), with smaller more undulate leaves on shorter petioles (rarely 1 cm. long), and deeper cups with more tumid scales.—Dry soil, N. H. to Minn., and southw. —Branchlets glabrous; leaves cov- ered beneath with a close white tomentum. Fig. 677. Var. KUFiiscENS Rehder differs in having the young branchlets pubescent and some tawny wool mixed with the white to- mentum on the under surface of the leaves. — Damp woods and pine-barrens, e. Mass. to N. C. 9. Q. Prinus L. (Chestnut O.) Leaves thick, obovate or oblong to lanceo- late, sometimes acuminate, with an obtuse or acute base, undulately crenate- toothed, pale and minutely downy beneath, the primary ribs 10-16 pairs, straight, prominent beneath; fruiting peduncles shorter than the petioles, often very short; cup thick, mostly tu- berculate with hard and stout scales. — Rocky banks and hillsides, s. Me. to Ont., and southw. —A large tree, with thick and deeply furrowed bark. Fig. 678. 10. Q. virginiana Mill. (Live 0.) Leaves small, oblong or elliptical, hoary beneath (as well as on the branchlets) ; peduncle usually conspicuous, 1-3-f ruited ; cup top-shaped; acorn subc
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