CUPULIFEE.^. 



8ILVA OF NORTH A3IERICA, 



147 



QUEROUS DIGITATA. 



Spanish Oak. 



Leaves oblong or obovate, 3 to 5-lobe(i, the lobes usually elongated and falcate, ful- 

 i or pale-pubescent on the lower surface. 



Quercus digitata, Sudworth, Garden and Forest^ v. 98 

 (1892) ; Bep. Sec. Agric. U. S. 1892, 328. — Coulter, 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 417 (3Ian. PL W. Texas). 



Quercus nigra digitata, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 121 

 (1785). 



? Quercus rubra montana, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 123 

 (1785). 



Quercus cuneata, Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz. 78, t. 5, f. 

 14 (1787). — Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. ii. 64. — Lauche, 



Deutsche Dendr. 296. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 



Ill, f. 52, 53. — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 132. 

 Quercus rubra, ^ Hispanica, Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati 



Uniti, ii. 347 (excl. sy n.) (1790) . 

 Quercus rubra, /?, Abbot & Smith, Insects of Georgia, i. 



27, t. 14 (1797). 



Liebmann Chenes Am. Trop. t. A, t. 22, f . 3. — Wesmael, 

 Bull. Fed. Hort. Sac. Belg. 1869, 342. — Sargent, Forest 

 Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 150. — Houba, Chenes 

 Am. en Belgique, 243, t.— Watson & Coulter, Grai/s 



Man 



Mayr, Wald. Nordam 

 Michaux, Hist. Chenes j 



14, t. 



Poiret, 



26 (1801). — Willdenow, Spec. iv. pt. i. 443 ; Berl. 



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



Inst. Nat. Sci. Phys. Math. viii. 



Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 220. — Aiton, 



291. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 628. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 



Sprengel, Syst. iii. 862. — Dietrich, Syn. v. 310. 



alongata, WiUdenow, Muehlenberq & Willdenow 



Hort. Kew 



156. 



Neue Schrift. Gesell. Nat 



Snec. iv. T)t. i. 444. 



Quercus rubra, Abbot & Smith, Insects of Georgia, i. 99, Quercus falcata, (B triloba, NuttaU, Gen. ii. 214 (1818). 



t. 50 (not Linnaeus) (1797). 



Quercus falcata, Michaux, Hist. Chenes Am. No. 16, t. 28 

 (1801) ; Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 199. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 569. 

 Poiret, Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 221. — Michaux f. Hist. 

 Arb. Am. ii. 104, t. 21. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 631. 

 NuttaU, Gen. ii. 214. — Nouveau Duhamel, vii. 169. 

 Elliott, Sk. ii. 604. — Darlington, Fl. Cestr. ed. 3, 269. 



EUiott, Sk. ii. 604. — A. de CandoUe, Prodr. xvi, pt. ii. 

 59. — Wesmael, Bidl. Fed. Hort. Soc. Belg. 1869, 343. 

 Quercus falcata, var, b pagodsefolia, Elliott, Sk. ii. 605 



(1824). 

 39. 



Curtis, Bep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, iii 



Quercus discolor, Spach, Hist. Veg. xi. 163 (not Alton) 

 (1842). 



Curtis, Bep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, iii. 39. — Chap- Quercus falcata, /5 Ludoviciana, A. de CandoUe, Prodr, 



man 



A. de CandoUe, Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 58. 



Medd. fra nat. For. Kjbbenh. 1866, 'i 



xvi. pt. ii. 59 (1864). 



A tree, usually seventy or eighty feet tall, with a trunk from two to three feet in diameter and 

 stout spreading branches which form a broad round-topped open head, but occasionally growing to a 

 height of a hundred feet, with a trunk five feet in diameter. The bark of the trunk is from three 

 quarters of an inch to an inch in thickness, and is dark brown tinged with red or sometimes pale, and is 

 divided by shallow fissures into broad ridges covered with thin rather closely appressed scales. The 

 branchlets are stout, marked with many minute lenticels, and coated at first, as are the young leaves, 

 with a thick rusty or orange-colored clammy tomentum of articulate hairs ; during their first winter 

 they are dark red or reddish brown, and pubescent or rarely glabrous or nearly so, and in their second 

 year grow dark reddish brown or ashy gray. The winter-buds are ovoid or oval, acute, from an eighth 



to a quarter of an inch long, and 



are covered by bright chestnut-brown puberulous or pilose scales 

 often ciliate with short pale hairs. The leaves are convolute in the bud, oblong or obovate in outline, 

 and generally narrowed and wedge-shaped or abruptly wedge-shaped, or rounded and sHghtly narrowed 

 at the base ; in one form they are divided by deep wide obHque sinuses rounded at the bottom into 

 three, five, or seven bristle-pointed lobes ; the terminal lobe is then usually much elongated, often scythe- 

 shaped, acute and entire or repand-dentate near the apex, with one or two large bristle-pointed teeth, 

 and the lateral lobes are oblique or spreading and often falcate, gradually narrowed from a broad base 



