. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the I^oetheen States and Canada. 171 The Overciip 0;\k is n tree Ordinarily of medium stature, but rarely attains the height of nearly 100 ft. with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. In its distribution it is confined to swamps and low wet bottom-lands, often that are more or less inundated during the greater part of the year. Its associates in these localities are the Water and Laurel Oaks, Swamp Bay, Tupelo Gum, Water Gum, Water Ash, River Birch, Cypress, etc. It
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the I^oetheen States and Canada. 171 The Overciip 0;\k is n tree Ordinarily of medium stature, but rarely attains the height of nearly 100 ft. with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. In its distribution it is confined to swamps and low wet bottom-lands, often that are more or less inundated during the greater part of the year. Its associates in these localities are the Water and Laurel Oaks, Swamp Bay, Tupelo Gum, Water Gum, Water Ash, River Birch, Cypress, etc. It is not often found isolated from other trees, but when so it has a handsome oblong or rounded top with more or less pendulous branchlets. The wood of the Overcup Oak is heavy, a cubic foot when absolutely dry weighing lbs., hard, strong, and is durable in contact with the soil. These desirable qualities make it applicable to the same uses as those to which the White Oak is applied, from which it is not distinguished in Leaves obovate-oblong, wedge-shaped at base, lyrate-pinnatifid or lobed to beyond the middle, with 5-0 entire or sparingly-toothed triangular oblique lobes the upper pair usually the larger and more divergent, shining dark green above, white tomentose. beneath. Flowers: staminate aments 3-6 in. long; calyx with 5 acute lobes. Fruit sessile or with short peduncles; nut mostly de- pressed globose and nearly or quite enveloped by the cup which is rather thin, hoary tomentose, with thick rugged united scales at the base but gradually thinner towards the margin, which often splits irregularly. 1. A. W., XII, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924. Lowville, N. Y. : Romeyn Beck Hough
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