SWAMP WHITE OAK (Quercus platanoides, Sudw.)- 70 to 

 100 feet. Shaggy, picturesque, rugged tree, with short, hor- 

 izontal branches, drooping below, ending in tufts of twigs that 

 die and persist. Bark pale grayish brown, peeling in thin 

 flakes from trunk and limbs, somewhat after the manner of the 

 sycamore. Wood pale brown, heavy, coarse, tough, used as 

 other white oak is. Leaves obovate, 5 to 7 inches long, wedge- 

 shaped at base, wavy-margined, with small, rounded lobes, 

 dull, dark green above, white downy beneath. Petioles 

 stout. Flowers hairy, monoecious: staminate in catkins; 

 pistillate few, spiked. Acorns annual, paired, on long stem; 

 nut oval, 1 to 1^ inches long, brown, hairy at tip, in rough cup 

 with thick scales, often fringed at top; kernel sweet, edible. 

 Dist.: Moist or swampy soil, Maine to Iowa; south to Mary- 

 land, Kentucky, and Arkansas; along mountains into Georgia. 

 Commonest near Great Lakes. Worthy park tree. 



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