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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



persistent until midsummer; calyx red or green tinged with red and irregularly 

 divided into 3-5 ovate rounded lobes shorter than the stamens, with bright red 

 ultimately yellow anthers; pistillate on stout tomentose peduncles, their involucral 

 scales ovate, about as long as the acute calyx-lobes, red, and tomentose; stigmas 



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dark red. Fruit produced in great profusion, sessile or stalked, in pairs or rarely 

 solitary; acorn ovoid, broad, flat or rounded at the base, gradually narrowed and 

 acute or rounded at the apex, about ^' long and broad, light brown, lustrous, usually 

 faintly striate, inclosed for about one half its length in the cup-shaped or saucer- 

 shaped cup often abruptly enlarged above the stalk-like base, thick, light reddish 

 brown and puberulous within, and covered by thin ovate closely imbricated red- 

 brown puberulous scales acute or truncate at the apex, the minute free tips of the 

 upper scales forming a fringe-like border to the cup. 



A tree, occasionally 18-20 high, with a trunk 5'-6' in diameter, with slender 

 spreading branches usually forming a round-topped head, and slender branchlets 

 dark green more or less tinged with red and hoary-pubescent at first, during their 

 first winter red-brown or ashy gray and pubescent or puberulous, becoming glabrous 

 and darker in their second year and ultimately dark brown or nearly black; more 

 frequently an intricately branched shrub, with numerous contorted stems 3-10 tall. 

 Winter-buds ovate, obtuse, about ^' long, with dark chestnut-brown rather loosely 

 imbricated glabrous or pilose scales. Bark thin, smooth, dark brown, covered by 

 small closely appressed scales. 



Distribution. Dry sandy barrens and rocky hillsides; coast of eastern Maine 

 southward through eastern and southern New England to eastern Pennsylvania and 

 along the Alleghany Mountains to southern Virginia, and westward to the shores of 

 Lake George and the valley of the Hudson River; common in eastern and southern 

 New England, in the Pine barrens of New Jersey, and in eastern Pennsylvania. 



11. Quercus digitata, Sudw. Spanish Oak. 



Leaves oblong or obovate, generally narrowed and wedge-shaped or abruptly 

 wedge-shaped or rounded and slightly narrowed at the base, sometimes divided by 

 deep wide sinuses rounded at the bottom into 3, 5, or 7 lobes, the terminal lobe 



