CUPULIFERiE. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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Tlie wood of Quereus Cateshcei is heavy ^ hard^ strongs and 



rather close-srrained ; it is light b 



t> 



tinged with red^ with thick lighter colored sapwood, and contains broad bands o£ several rows of large 



short lines 



open ducts marking the layers of annual growth^ and many smaller ducts arranged in 



parallel to the broad conspicuous medullary rays 



Th 



e 



ipecific 



ity of the absolutely dry wood 



whose name it bears in his 



0.7294, a cubic foot weighing 45.45 pounds. It is largely used for fuel. 



Qicercics Cateshcei appears to have been first described by the naturalist 

 Natural History of Carolina^ published in 1731.^ 



As an ornamental tree the Turkey Oak ^ has little to commend it, and it is chiefly valuable from 

 ability to grow rapidly and produce good fuel on barren soil. 



This tree (Plate ccccxix.), which is about forty feet high, grows long and three or four inches wide, while on the upper they vary 



in the town of Bluffton close to a tree of Quereus laurifoUa, the two, from two to five inches in length and from one to two inches in 



seen from a little distance, appearing identical in form and general width. The fruit is sessile or short-stalked, with a subglobose nut 



appearance, in the color of their foliage, and in their smooth dark three quarters of an inch long and inclosed for about a quarter 



bark. The leaves are lanceolate to ovate or oblong-obovate ; on the of its length in a thin cup-shaped cup covered by ovate acute or 



upper branches they are narrow and entire or slightly lobed, or some- truncate scales coated with pale pubescence. In the winter-buds, 



times pinnatifid, and on the lower branches are broader and usually although rather smaller and more glabrous, this tree resembles 



furnished with one or rarely with two pairs of wide-spreading some- Quereus Catesbcei, but the thin cup-shaped cups indicate a cross with 



times falcate acute entire lobes ; or some leaves are broadly obovate, some other species, probably Quereus laurifolia, which it also resem- 



undulate, and fchree-lobed at the ends ; when they unfold they are bles in the leaves on its upper branches. 



pubescent below and fulvous-glandular but soon glabrate above ; 



Quereus Eseuli divisura foliis amplioribus aeuleatis, i. 23, t. 23 



and at maturity they are conspicuously reticulate- venulose, dark (not Plukenet). 



green and lustrous on the upper surface, and yellow and orange- 



2 The Turkey Oak is also called Scrub Oak, Black Jack, and 



color on the under surface, which is glabrous or slightly puberu- Fork-leaved Black Jack, 

 lous. On the lower branches they are sometimes six or seven inches 



