CHAP. CY. CORYLA‘CER. QUE’RCUS. 1875) 
¥ Q. P. 3 acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 196., Quer., No. 5. t. 8., 
and our fig. 1737.; Q. P. acuminata Miche. fil. N. Amer. Syl., i. 
p. 51. t. 10.; Q. Castanea Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p.441., Pursh Fl. Amer. 
Sept., ii. p. 634., N. Du Ham., vii. : 
p- 167., Smith in Rees’s Cycl., N. 51., 
Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, The yellow 
Oak. — Leaves on long footstalks ; 
obtuse at the base, sharply serrated. 
Fruit of moderate size; cup hemi- 
spherical. (Michx.) The yellow oak, 
according to the younger Michaux, 
is a fastigiate-growing tree, from 
70 ft. to 80 ft. high, and with a trunk 
about 2 ft, in diameter. The bark is 
whitish, very slightly furrowed, and 
sometimes divided into plates. The 
wood is yellowish; but the tint is 
not sufficiently bright to entitle it Ms 
to rank among the ornamental woods. The leaves are lanceolate, 
obtuse at the base, and ending in a sharp point, regularly toothed, 
of a light green above, and whitish beneath. The acorns are small, 
roundish-ovate, and contained in shallow slightly scaly cups: they 
are considered sweeter than those of any other kind of oak in the 
United States. It is generally found in the middle and western 
states, taking the banks of the Delaware for its northern boundary, 
and those of the Savannah for its southern. It is, however, very 
thinly disseminated, and is frequently lost sight of for several days’ 
journey, even in those states where it is most plentiful. From its 
comparative rareness, it does not appear to have been applied to any 
uses in the arts; and Michaux says that the pores in its wood are 
so irregularly disposed, and so numerous, that the wood would pro- 
bably possess very little of either strength or durability. The tree 
is, however, very ornamental from its beautiful foliage, and fastigiate 
habit of growth. It was introduced in 1822; and there are plants at 
Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
* Q. P. 4 pumila Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 196., Quer., No. 5. t.9. f. 1.; 
Q. P. Chinquapin Michx. fil. Arb., ii. p. 65. t. 10., N. Amer. SylL., 
i. p. 55. t.11., and our fig. 1738.; Q. Chinquapin Pursh Fl. Amer. 
Sept., ii. p. 634., Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 
48,; Q. prindides Willd. Sp. Pl., iv. p. 440., 
N. Du Ham., vii. p. 166. The Chinquapin, 3 
or Dwarf Chestnut, Oak. — Leaves on shortish 
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30 in. in height; though Pursh says it grows to 
the height of 3 ft. or 4 ft. The leaves are oval- 
acuminate, regularly, but not deeply, dentated, 
of a light green above, and whitish beneath. 
The acorns are enclosed, for about one third of 
their length, in scaly sessile cups; they are of ~ 1738 
the middle size, somewhat elongated, similarly rounded at both ends, 
and very sweet. Nature seems to have sought to compensate for the 
diminutive size of this shrub by the abundance of its fruit: the stem, 
which is sometimes no bigger than a quill, is stretched at full length 
upon the ground by the weight of its thickly clustering acorns. 
(XN. Amer, Syl., i. p. 56.) This shrub grows most abundantly inthe 
northern and middle states of North America, and is usually found 
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