. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. r, Tupelo and Sweet Gums,White Cedar, etc. It is a beautiful tree with its laurel-likeleaves and sturdy trunks and is deservedlypopular as a shade tree in th,e southern states,where it is commonly planted and is usually<alled the Waie? Oak. The wood heretoforehas been used mainly for fuel and charcoal,though siiitable for lumber for interior finish-ing, etc. A cubic foot when absolutely dry^veighs Leaves narrow-oblong to oblonsr-obovate, some-timps falcate, 2-4 in. long, cun
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. r, Tupelo and Sweet Gums,White Cedar, etc. It is a beautiful tree with its laurel-likeleaves and sturdy trunks and is deservedlypopular as a shade tree in th,e southern states,where it is commonly planted and is usually<alled the Waie? Oak. The wood heretoforehas been used mainly for fuel and charcoal,though siiitable for lumber for interior finish-ing, etc. A cubic foot when absolutely dry^veighs Leaves narrow-oblong to oblonsr-obovate, some-timps falcate, 2-4 in. long, cuneate at base,roiindpd or acute at apex, entire or on vigorousbranches unequally lobed, at maturity lustrous?dark green above, paler beneath : petioles shortand stout. Flowrrt): staminate in reddish hairyaments in. long; pistillate with short stoutglabrous peduncles. Fnrit sessile or nearly so,usually solitary with short ovoid to hemisphericalnut. puberulous at apex about one fourth inclosedin a thin flat saucer-shaped cup with thin pale-piibeseent closely imbricated scales. 1. A. W., XII,
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