. 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. Spanish Oak 295 sionally with a few hairs above, paler, sometimes brownish, smooth or with a few hairs beneath, turning yellow or brown before falUng in the autumn. The leaf- stalk is slender, almost round, to 5 cm. long and yellow. The flowers appear in April and May when the leaves are half unfolded, the staminate in clustered hairy catkins 5 to 10 cm. long, their hairy calyx with 4 or 5 broadly ovate, sharp- pointe
. 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. Spanish Oak 295 sionally with a few hairs above, paler, sometimes brownish, smooth or with a few hairs beneath, turning yellow or brown before falUng in the autumn. The leaf- stalk is slender, almost round, to 5 cm. long and yellow. The flowers appear in April and May when the leaves are half unfolded, the staminate in clustered hairy catkins 5 to 10 cm. long, their hairy calyx with 4 or 5 broadly ovate, sharp- pointed lobes; stamens 4 or 5, exserted; anthers ovate, sharp-pointed, smooth. The pistillate flowers are on short hairy stalks, their involucral scales pale woolly, as are the sharp-pointed calyx-lobes; the styles are long, much recurved and deep red. The fruit, ripening in the autumn of the second year, is usually short-stalked, either solitary or clustered; nut oblong to ovoid, to 4 cm. long, light brown, often with darker stripes; shell thin, woolly inside; cup about as high as wide, deeper than that of any related species, 2 to cm. across, light brown on inner surface, embracing one third to one half of the nut, the scales thin, close, brown and shining, often forming a narrow fringe around the rim. The wood is strong but brittle, coarse-grained and light reddish brown; its specific gravity is about It is used to some extent for interior finishing and for furniture, especially in Oregon, but mostly for fuel. The astringent bark is used to a limited extent in tanning. 12. SPANISH OAK —Quercns triloba Michaux Quercus falcata Michaux. Qiiercus digitata (Marshall) Sudworth Quercus nigra digitata Marshall A tree of dry gravelly or sandy soils, from New Jersey to Missouri, Florida and Texas, most abundant in the Gulf States, where it reaches its maximum height of about 30 meters, with a trunk di- ameter of m. It is sometimes called Red oak and Spanish water oak. Th
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