. 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. 3IO The Oaks brown and silky inside, embracing about one third of the nut, covered with thin oblong-lanceolate blunt scales. The wood is hard, close-grained and brittle, reddish brown; its specific gravity is It is seldom used except for fuel,for which, however, it is largely employed. The fruit is used for food by the Indians of Lower California, by being ground into meal, washed, and baked into cakes. Quercus 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. 3IO The Oaks brown and silky inside, embracing about one third of the nut, covered with thin oblong-lanceolate blunt scales. The wood is hard, close-grained and brittle, reddish brown; its specific gravity is It is seldom used except for fuel,for which, however, it is largely employed. The fruit is used for food by the Indians of Lower California, by being ground into meal, washed, and baked into cakes. Quercus pumila Walter, the Running oak of the southeastern States, from North Carolina to Florida, an evergreen shrub with long underground stems, thick narrow leaves, and small acoms ripening the first season, is not known to ever form a tree. 27. WILCOX'S OAK —Quercus WUcoxii Rydberg Rarely a tree 6 to 9 meters tall, this shrub occurs in the mountains of Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and probably in New Mexico and adjacent Mexico; it is very similar to the White live oak, Q. chrysolepis Liebmann, of California. The bark is dark gray or brownish. The twigs are hairy, soon becoming smooth, gray or brown. The buds are small, hairy and brown. The leaves are ovate to broadly oval, i to 4 cm. long, abruptly short taper-pointed, tapering at the base to a stout petiole i to 4 mm. Ibng, entire or with few bristle-tipped teeth on the revolute margin, those of vigorous sterile shoots quite different, broader or almost orbicular in outline, with rounded or heart-shaped base and deeply bristle-toothed margin; they are thick, firm and leathery, yellowish hairy when young, pale yel- lowish green, smooth and shining above, very pale, almost white, dull and punctate beneath, persisting until the new ones unfold. The fruit Fig. 's Oak. jg gtaiked; nut ovoid, about 5 mm. long, light brown'and smooth inside; cup hemispheric, 10 to 14 mm. across, embracing about one fourth of the nut and covered by sha
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