CUPULIFEILa:. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA, 



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QUEROUS ACUMINATA. 



Yellow Oak. Chestnut Oak. 



Leaves oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, or broadly obovate, ^ 

 ately toothed, puberulous, pale, and often silvery white on the lower surface 



Qualh 



Quercus acuminata 



Garden and Forest, viii 



93 (1895). 



acuminata, Michaux, Hist 



No. 5, t. 8 (1801) ; Fl. Bor.-Am, ii. 196. — Michaux 

 f. Hist. Arh. Am. ii. 61. t. 9. 



167. 



Nouveau Duhamel, vii. 



Gray, Man. ed. 5, 451. — A. de CandoUe, Prodr. 



xvi. pt. ii. 21. — Wesmael, Bull. Fed. Soc. Hort. Belg. 



1869, 339. — Houba, Chenes Am. en Belgique, 284. 



Quercus Castanea, Willdenow, Muehlenberg & Willdenow 



Sprengel, Syst. iii. 860. — Spach, Hist. Veg. xi. 168. — Tor- 

 rey, Fl. N. Y. ii. 193. — Gray, Man. 416. — Darlington, 

 Fl. Cestr. ed. 3, 267. — Brendel, Trans. III. Agric. Soc. 

 iii. 619, t. 4. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Sum. N. Car. 1860, 



Chapman, Fl. 424. — Orsted, Vidensk. Medd, 



34. 



fra not. For. Kjohenh. 1866, 68; Liehmann Chenes 

 Am. Trop. t. H, K, 33, f. 31, 32. — Vasey, Am. Ent. and 

 Bat. ii. 281, f. 173. — Dipjiel, Handb. Laubholzk. 86, f. 



36. 



Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 127. 



Neue Schrift. Gesell. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iii. 396 (not N^e) Quercus Muehlenbergii, Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis 



(1801) ; Spec. iv. pt. i. 441 ; Enum. 976 ; Berl. Baumz. 

 ed. 2, 341. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 569. — Bosc, Mem. Inst. 



Acad. iii. 391 (1877). — Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 



xiii. 40. 



Nat. Sci. Phys. Math. viii. pt. i. 341. — Stokes, Bot. Quercus prinoides, Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th 



Mat. Med. iv. 407. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 634. 

 Poiret, Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 219. — Nuttall, Gen. ii 

 216. — Hayne, De7idr. Fl. 156. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 610. 



Censics U. S. ix. 142 (in part) (not Willdenow) (1884) 

 Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 145, t. 1, 2. 



A tree, from eighty to one hundred or 



ally one hundred and sixty feet in height, with 



tall 



& 



ht trunk th 



or four feet in diameter above the broad and often buttressed base and 



comparatively small branches which form a shapely narrow round-topped head ; or east of the AUeghany 

 Mountains and on dry hills often not more than twenty or thirty feet tall. The bark of the trunk is 

 rarely more than half an inch in thickness and is broken on the surface into thin loose silvery gray or 

 nearly white scales, sometimes slightly tinged with brown. The branchlets are slender and marked 

 with scattered pale lenticels, and when they first appear are green, more or less tinged with red or 

 purple, and pilose with scattered pale hairs ; during their first winter they are light orange-colored or 

 reddish brown, and, gradually growing darker, become dark brown or orange-colored in their second 

 year, and ultimately gray or brown. The buds are ovate, acute, from an eighth to nearly a quarter of an 

 inch in length, and covered with chestnut-brown scales white and scarious on the margins. The leaves, 

 which are usually crowded at the ends of the branches, are convolute in the bud, oblong or lanceolate 

 or broadly obovate, abruptly or gradually narrowed and wedge-shaped or slightly narrowed and rounded 

 or cordate at the base, acute, or acuminate at the apex with long and narrow or with short and broad 

 points, equally serrate except at the base, the teeth, which are acute and often inflexed or broad and 

 rounded, being tipped with small glandular mucros ; or the leaves are rarely sHghtly undulate ; when they 

 unfold they are bright bronzy green and puberulous on the upper surface, and tinged with purple, and 

 coated on the lower with pale tomentum which soon disappears, leaving in the axils of the veins tufts 

 of pale hairs which are very conspicuous when the leaves are about haH grown ; at maturity they are 

 thick and firm in texture, light yeUow-green above, pale, often silvery white, and coated with short fine 

 pubescence below, from four to seven inches long, and from one to five inches broad, with stout yeUow 

 midribs impressed on the upper side, and conspicuous primary veins running obliquely to the pomts of 

 the teeth and connected by reticulate cross veinlets ; they are borne on slender nearly terete or shglitly 

 flattened petioles varying from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in length, and in the 



