CUPULIFER^. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



63 



QUERCUS PLATANOIDES. 



Swamp White Oak. 



Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, wedge-shaped at the base, generally coarsely 

 sinuate-dentate or lobed, pubescent and usually hoary on the lower surface. 



Quercus platanoideSj Sudworth, Rep. Sec. Agric. U. S. 

 1892, 327 (1893). 



Quercus Prinus, ^ platanoides, Lamarck, Diet. i. 720 



(1783). —Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Ctdt ed. 2, vi. 423, 



Quercus alba palustris, Marshall, Arbtcst Am. 120 



(1785). 



Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati U^iiti, ii. 348. 



Muehlenberg & Willdenow, Netie Schrift. Gesell. Nat. 

 Fr. Berlin^ iii. 395. 

 Quercus Prinus tomentosa, Michaux, Hht. Chenes Am. 



t. 9 (1801) ; Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 196. — Loudon, Arh. Brit. 

 iii. 1876, f . 1739. — Wenzig, Jahrh. Bot. Gart. Berlin^ iii. 

 180. 

 Quercus bicolor, Willdenow, Miiehlenherg & Willdenow 

 Neue Schrift Gesell. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iii. 396 (1801) ; 



Darlington, FL Cestr. ed. 3, 266. — A. de Candolle, 

 Prodv. xvi. pt. ii. 20 (excl. syn. Michaiixii). — Orsted, 

 Vidensk. Medd. fra nat. For. KjohenJu 1866, 67. — Wes- 

 mael, Bull. Fed. Sac. Hart. Belg. 1869, 337. —Vasey, 

 Am. Ent. aiid Bot. ii. 280, f. 172. — Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. 

 ii. 47. — Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 389. 

 Lauche, DexUsche Dendr. 294. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. 

 Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 141. — Houba, Chenes Am. eii 

 Belgique^ 275, t. — Watson & Coulter, Gray's Man. ed. 6, 

 476. — Mayr, Wald. Nordani. 144, t. 1, 2. — Koehne, 

 Deutsche Dendr. 127. — Dippel, Handh. Lauhholzk. ii. 86. 

 Quercus Prinus discolor, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii. 

 46, t. 6 (1812). — Brendel, Trans. III. Agrlc, Soc. iii. 617, 



t. 3. 



Chapman, FL 424. 



Spec. iv. pt. i. 440. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 569. 

 Mem. Dist. Nat. Sci. Phys, Math. viii. pt. 



Bosc, 



Quercus bicolor, p mollis, Nuttall, Gen. ii. 215 (1818) ; 

 Sylva^ i. 14. — Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States^ 359. 

 Poiret, Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 219. — Pursh, FL Am. Sejyt. Quercus Prinus, /? bicolor, Spach, Hist. Veg. xi. 158 



1. o 



'^ll. 



• * 



11. 



633. 



Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 226. — Nuttall, Gen. ii. 



(1842). 



215. 



860. 



Nouveau Duhamel, vii. 165. — Sprengel, Syst. iii. Quercus bicolor, ^ platanoid.es, A. de CancIoUe, Prodr. 



Emerson, Trees Mass. 135, t. 4 ; ed. 2, i. 153, t. 



Torrey, Fl. N. Y. ii. 192. — Dietrich, Syn. v. 308. 



xvi. pt. ii. 21 (1864). — Wesmael, Bull. Fed. Soc. Hort 

 Belg. 1869, 336. 



A tree, usually sixty or seventy, or, exceptionally, a hundred feet in height,^ with a trunk 



or 



three 



ally 



and rising above into a narrow ronnd-topped 



feet in diameter and rather small limbs generally pendulons below 



head, and often furnished with short lateral 



less^ and is 

 overed with 



open 



pendulous branches. The bark on old trunks varies from one to two inches in thick 

 deeply and irregularly divided by continuous or interrupted fissures into broad flat ridges ( 

 small appressed gray-brown 



scales 



sometimes slightly tinged with red; on 



young stems and small 



branches 



smooth and reddish or purphsh brown^ and separates freely into large papery persistent 



which in curHng back or falHng display the bright green inner bark 



Theb 



and marked with pale lenticels^ and when they first appear 



green 



and sHghtly 



fy 



pubescent ; during their first winter they are Hght orange-colored or reddish brown and glabrous or 

 puberulousj and in their second or third year become darker and often purphsh and clothed with a 

 glaucous bloom. The buds vary in shape from broadly ovate and obtuse or subglobose to ovate and 

 acute, and are about an eighth of an inch in length and covered by hght chestnut-brown scales usually 

 pilose above the middle with pale scattered fine hairs. The leaves are obovate or oblong-obovate, grad- 

 ually narrowed and wedge-shaped at the entire base, acute or rounded at the apex, and coarsely sinuate- 



1 The largest specimen of Quercus plataimdes of which a record varied little in size between the ground and the branches, had an 



has been preserved grew on the bottom-lands of the Genesee average circumference of twenty-seven feet with a minimum cir- 



I of Geneseo cumference of twenty-four. (See Buckley, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, 



Oak, as this xiii. 397 [Notice of some large Trees in Western New York}. 



Wadsworth estate, ct mile from the villag 



The Wadsworth 



in the western part of Xew York. The 



tree was called, was destroyed several years ago by the washing Down 



away of the bank of the river. In 1851 the short trunk, which 



