CUPULIFERiE. 



8ILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



51 



QUERCUS PRINUS. 



Chestnut Oak. Rock Chestnut Oak 



Leaves obovate or oblong to lanceolate-acuminate, coarsely crenately toothed with 

 rounded or acute teeth. 



Quercus Prinus, Linnaeus, Spec. 995 (1753). — Miller, ? Quercus Prinus, ^ oblongata, Aiton, HorU Kew. iii 



Diet. ed. 8, No. 9. — Muenchhausen, Hausv. v. 252. 



Du 



356 (1789) . 



Eoi, Harhk. Baumz. ii. 276, t. 6, f. 3, — Wangenheim, Quercus Prinus (Monticola), Michaux, Hist. Chenes 



8. 



h^eib. Nordam. Holz. 58 ; Nordam. Holz. 15, t. 4, f. 

 Lamarck, Diet. i. 720. — Moench, Baume Weiss. 



94 ; Meth. 348. — Evelyn, Silva, ed. Hunter, i. 69. 

 Willdenow, Bert. Baumz. 271 ; Spec. iv. pt. i. 439 ; Enum. 

 975. 



82. 



Smith & Abbot, iTiseets of Georgia^ ii. 163, t. 

 Muehlenberg & Willdenow, Neue Schrift. GeselL 



Nat. Ft. Berlin^ iii. 397. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 568, 



Am. No. 5, t. 7 (1801) ; Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 196. — Mi- 

 chaux f. Hist. Arh. Am. ii. 55, t. 8. — Spach, Hist. 



Veg. xi. 158. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, 

 iii. 34. — Chapman, Fl. 424. — A. de CandoUe, Prodr. 

 xvi. pt. ii. 21. — Gray, Man. ed. 5, 451. — Wesmael, Bull. 

 Fed. Soc. Hort. Belg. 1869, 339, t. 4. — BaUey, Am. Nat. 

 xiv. 892, f . 1-4. — Wenzig, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin^ iii. 



Hist 



Mat. Med, 



179. 



Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 85. 



IV. 



407. 



Nuttall, Gen. ii. 215. — Nouveau Buhamel^ Quercus montana, Willdenow, Spec. iv. pt. i. 440 (1805) ; 



vii. 164. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 155. — Sprengel, Syst. iii* 



859. 



Audubon, Birds, t. 50, 131. — Spach, Hist. Veg. 



Enum. 975; Berl. Baumz. ed. 2, 340. — Persoon, >S?/w.. 

 ii. 569. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 634. — Nuttall, Gen. 



xi. 157. — Dietrich, Syn. v. 308. — Darlington, Fl. Cestr. 

 ed. 3, 267. — Chapman, Fl. 423. — Orsted, Vidensk. Medd. 

 fra nat. For. Kjobenh. 1866, 67. — Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. 



11. 



216. 



Nouveau Duhamel, vii. 165, t. 47, f. 2. 



Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 156. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 609. — Bigelow, 

 Fl. Boston, ed. 2, 352. — Sprengel, Syst. iii. 860. — 



ii. 48. 



Engelm; 



iii. 390, 



Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. 294. — Sargent, Forest Trees 

 N. Am. 10th Census U. S- ix. 142. — Houba, Chenes 

 Am. en Belgique, 279, t. — Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 145, 



t. 2. 



Watson & Coulter, Grays Man. ed. 6, 476. 



Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 127. — Gard. Chron. ser. 3, xiv. 

 616, f. 101. 



Quercus Prinus, 



(1789). 



u. 



lata, Alton, Hort. Kew. iii. 356 



— Em- 

 erson, Trees Mass. 138, t. 6 ; ed. 2, i. 156, t. — Torrey, 

 Fl. N. Y. ii. 192. — Gray, Man. 414. — Darlington, Fl. 

 Cestr. ed. 3, 266. — Dietrich, Syn. v. 308. — Lauche, 

 Deutsche Dendr. 294. 



Quercus Castanea, Emerson, Trees Mass. 137, t. 5 (not 

 N^e nor Willdenow) (1838) ; ed. 2, i. 155, t. 



? Quercus Prinus, a parvif olia, Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 

 ii. 85, f. 35 (1892). 



A tree, usually sixty or seventy or occasionally one hundred feet in height, with a trunk three or 

 four, or rarely six or seven, feet in diameter, divided, generally fifteen or twenty feet above the surface 

 of the ground, into large limbs which spread into a broad rather open irregular head ; or on dry exposed 

 mountain-slopes often not more than twenty or thirty feet tall, with a trunk from eight to twelve inches 

 in diameter. The bark of young stems and small branches is thin, smooth, purpHsh brown, and often 

 lustrous, and on old trunks and large limbs it is from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in 

 thickness, dark reddish brown or nearly black, and divided into broad rounded longitudinal ridges 

 separating on the surface into smaU closely appressed scales. The branchlets are stout and marked 



with scattered pale lenticels, and when they first appear are green 



tinged 



with purple or bronze- 



color and glabrous, or 



pilose with long pale hairs; during their first winter they vary from Hght 



orange-color to reddish brown, and in their second year become dark gray or brown. The buds are 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, from one quarter to one half of an inch in length, and are covered with hght 

 chestnut-brown scales more or less pilose toward the apex, and ciHate on the margins with pale hairs. 

 The leaves are convolute in the bud, obovate or oblong to lanceolate, gradually or abruptly wedge- 

 shaped, or rounded or subcordate at the narrowed base, acute, or acuminate with short or elongated 

 pointed or rounded tips, or rounded at the apex, and regularly and coarsely crenulate-toothed, except 



