QUERCUS PRINOIDES, WILLD. 85 



glossy dark green above, pale and minutely downy beneath; 

 outline lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, with rather equal, 

 coarse, sharp, and often inflexed teeth ; apex acuminate ; base 

 wedge-shaped or acute; stipules soon falling. There is also 

 a form of the species in which the leaves are much larger, 

 5-7 inches in length and 3-5 inches in width, broadly ovate 

 or obovate, with rounded teeth ; distinguishable from Q. Primes 

 only by the bark and fruit. 



Inflorescence. May. Appearing with the leaves ; sterile 

 catkins 2-4 inches long ; calyx yellow, hairy, segments 5-8, 

 ciliate ; stamens 5-8, anthers yellow : pistillate flowers sessile 

 or on short spikes ; stigma red. 



Fruit. Maturing the first season, sessile or short-peduncled : 

 cup covering about half the nut, thin, shallow, with small, 

 rarely much thickened scales : acorn ovoid or globose, about f 

 inch long. 



Horticultural Value. Hardy in New England ; grows in all 



good dry or moist soils, in open or partly shaded situations ; 



maintains a nearly uniform rate of growth till maturity, and 



is not seriously affected by insects. It forms a fine individual 



tree and is useful in forest plantations. Propagated from 



seed. 



Plate XLII. Quercus Muhlenbergii. 



1. Winter buds. 



2. Flowering branch. 



3. Sterile flower. 



4. Fertile flowers. 



5. Fruiting branch. 



Quercus prinoides, Willd. 



Scrub White Oak. Scrub Chestnut Oak. 



More or less common throughout the states east of the 

 Mississippi ; Avestward apparently grading into Q. Muhlen- 

 bergii, within the limits of New England mostly a low shrub, 

 rarely assuming a tree-like habit. The leaves vary from 

 rather narrow-elliptical to broadly obovate, are rather regu- 

 larly and coarsely toothed, bright green and often lustrous 

 on the upper surface. 



