Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. 153 



This beautiful and stately Oak attains the 

 height of upwards of 100 ft. in forest-growth 

 with straight coluniiKir Iniiik 4 or 5 ft. in 

 diameter. Wlifn isolnti'ii fruiii other trees, as 

 occasionally found un liver banks where it has 

 room for full develu[inieiit. its nias-;ive brandies 

 fiirin a wide rounded toi). and its ample i>.uly- 

 colored leaves as they dis[)hiy sueee»ively llieir 

 dark-gieen and silvery-wliiti' surt'aeo. when 

 agitated by the wind, make it a beautiful ob- 

 ject. The bark of trunk is of a dark gray color 

 fissured into rather narrow ridges of firm small 

 scales. 



It is distinctly a tree of alluvial bottom-lands 

 and the banks of streams subject to inunda- 

 tion, reaching its greatest development in 

 northern Mississippi and eastern Arkansas 

 where it is a very valuable timber tree. 



The wood is heavy, hard, and strong and 

 useful for interior finishing, furniture, agri- 

 cultural implements, etc., nearly equaling in 

 value the wood of tlie White Oak and is really 

 one of the very best of the Red Onk group. 



Leaves oval to obloni; in outline, 5-10 in. Ion?, 

 wide-cuneate, truncate or rounded at base, with 

 5-7 wide-based and often falcate narrow-pointed 

 mostly entire bristle-tipped si)rcadinj? lobes, at 

 maturity lustrous dark green above, pale tomentose 

 beneath ; branchlets tomentose at first. Fruit 

 short-stalked with short subglobose puberuious 

 acorn about % in. in diameter and nearly half 

 Invested by the fla*^ or slightly turbinate cup of 

 small puhernions sfal.^s. 



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