n2 Trees with Simple Leaves. [Am 



Acorns, usually in pairs on a stem about one half of an 

 inch long, or often shorter. Cup, rounded or some- 

 what top-shaped, with minute scales, or warty. Nut, 

 usually long egg-shape or long oval ; one to one and 

 one fourth inches long ; brown ; about one third 

 covered by the cup ; sweet. September, October. 



Found, from Eastern Massachusetts to New York, south- 

 ward to Delaware, along the Alleghany Mountains to 

 Alabama and westward to Central Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. 



A tree forty to seventy feet in height, with strong, 

 hard wood, largely used in fencing, for railroad ties, etc. ; 

 of less value than that of the White Oak. Its bark is very 

 rich in tannin. 



Fig. 58. Yellow Chestnut Oak, Yellow Oak. Q. Muhlenbergii, 

 Engel. Q. castanea, Willd. 



Leaves, SIMPLE ; ALTERNATE ; EDGE EVENLY AND SHARPLY 

 (or sometimes bluntly) TOOTHED. 



Outline, very narrow oval (or sometimes wide). Apex, 

 taper-pointed. Base, pointed or blunt. 



Leaf-stem, three fourths to one inch long. 



Leaf, usually about five to seven inches long, by one and 

 one half to two inches wide, but sometimes so wide 

 as to resemble the preceding species ( ' Q.prinus), from 

 which, however, it is distinguished by its thin bark. 

 Of all the " chestnut-oak " leaves it most closely 

 resembles the chestnut leaf. It is smooth above, 

 whitish and minutely downy beneath. 



Bark of trunk, light, flaky, and thin. 



