QUERCUS 261 



Dry soil, Maine to Minnesota, Nebraska, Mississippi and Florida. In 

 Minnesota very abundant with shell-bark hickory on dry hills in the 

 southeast corner of the State, not known in the vicinity of Minneapolis 

 nor from the central and northern parts of the state. 



Wood reddish brown, hard, strong, not tough, coarse, weight 44 lbs. ; 

 little used except for fuel. Bark used for tanning, as a yellow dye, and 

 medicinally as an astringent. 



Quercus ellipsoidalis E. J. Hill 1899 Northern Pin Oak 



"Black Oak" 



Tree, 10-20 m. (33-65 ft.) high, 3-6 dm. or rarely 1 in. in diameter, or 

 low and almost shrub-like ; bark at first smooth, later roughened and 

 divided by shallow fissures into large plates, dark brown or blackish, 

 branches dark gray, inner bark light yellow, buds rounded or pointed, 

 nearly smooth, 1-3 mm. long, .75-1.5 mm. wide; leaves oval in outline. 



Quercus coccir?ea Quercus ellipioidalb 



very deeply cut into about five lobes, widest about the middle, the lobes 

 deeply cut or toothed, the ultimate divisions all acute and bristle-tipped, 

 tip of leaf bristle pointed, base broadly wedge-shaped, bright glossy green 

 above, somewhat paler below, downy and reddish when they first appear, 



