CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 149 



274. Quercus tinctoria, Bartram, 



Travels, 2 ed. 37. Abbot, Insects Georgia, ii, t. 5C. Micbaiix, Hist. Cbcnes Am. No. 13, t. 24,25; Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 198. Willdenow, Spec 

 iv, 444; Euiim.976; Berl. Baumz. 344. Deafontaines, Hist. Aib. ii, 509. Poiret, Suppl. ii,221. Micbaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 110, 

 t.22; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. i, 76, t.24. Aiton.Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 291. Pursb, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 629. Smith in Roes' Cycl. 

 XXX, No. 58. Bartoa, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 91 ; Compend. Fl. Philadelph. ii, 168. Eaton, Manual, 108 ; 6 ed. 292. Nuttall, Genera, 

 ii, 214 ; Sylva, i, 21 ; 2 ed. i, 32. Nouveau Duhamel, vii, 169. Hayue, Dend. Fl. 156. Elliott, Sk. ii, 601. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 862. 

 Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 357; Fl. N. Yorlj,ii, 188. Audubon, Birds, t. 82. Beck, Bot. 328. Loudon, Arboretum, iii, 1884, 

 f. 17.53, 1754.-k-Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 158. Bigelow.Fl. Bcston. 3 ed. 376. Eaton &, Wright, Bot. 384. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi, 

 164. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 141, t. 7; 2 ed. i, 160 & t. Griffith, Med. Bot. 586.- Gray, Manual N. Stales, 1 ed. 416. 

 Darlington. Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed.268. Darby, Bot. S. States, 510. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858,255. Brendel in Trans. Illinois 

 Ag. Soc. iii, 627, t. 8. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 422. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 39. Lesquereux in 

 Owen's 2d Kep. Arkansas, 388. Wood, CI. Book, 645. Engelmann in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii, 209 ; Trans. St. Louis Acad, 

 iii, 395. Porcber, Eesources S. Forests, 238. Orsted in Saerskitt. Altryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 1866, 45, 72, f. 18. 

 Liebmann, Chcnes Am. Trop. 9, f. 6. Young, Bot. Texas, 504. Hayden in Warren's Rep. Nebraska & Dakota, 2 ed. 121. Guibourt, 

 Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. ii, 288. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 27. Beutley & Trimen, Med.Fl. iv, 251, t.2ul. Ridgway in Proc. U. 8. 

 Nat. Mus. 1882, 84. 



f Q. velulina, Lamarck, Diet, i, 172. Koch, Dendrologie, iii", 68. 



Q. nigra, Marshall, Arbustum, 120 [not LinniBus]. Wangenheim, Amer. 79, t. 6, f. 16. 



Q. rubra, Wangenheim, Amer. 14, t. 3, f. 7 [not LinnsBus]. Muhlenberg & Willdenow in Neue Schriften Gesell. Nat. Fr. 

 Berlin, iii, 399. 



Q. discolor, Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 358. Abbot, Insects Georgia, ii. 111. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 444; Berl. Baumz. 345. 

 Poiret, Suppl. ii, 221. Smith in Eees' Cycl. xxx. No. 59. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 214. Elliott, Sk. ii, 601. Sprengel, 

 Syst. iii, 863. Beck, Bot. 329.-Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 292. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 384. 



Q. tinctoria, var. angulosa, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 198. London, Arboretum, iii, 1858. 



Q. tinctoria, var. simiosa, Michanx, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 198. London, Arboretum, iii, 1885, f. 1755-1757. Liebmann, Chdne* 

 Am. Trop. t. C. 



t Q. Shumardii, Buckley in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1860, 445. 



Q. coccinea, var. tinctoria. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 454. Wood, 01. Book, 306. A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi, 61. 



BLACK OAK. YELLOW-BAEK OAK. QUERCITRON OAK. YELLOW OAK. 



Southern Maine to northern Vermont, Ontario, southern Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, and 

 the Indian territory, south to the Chattahoochee region of western Florida, southern Alabama and Mississippi, and 

 eastern Texas. 



A large tree, 24 to 36 or, exceptionally, 48 meters (Ridgway) in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.80 meter in 

 diameter; generally on dry or gravelly uplands; very common. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, not tough, coarsegrained, liable to check in drying; layers of annual growth 

 marked by several rows of very large open ducts; color, bright brown tinged with red, the sap-wood much 

 lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7045 ; ash, 0.28 ; somewhat used for cooperage, construction, etc. 



The bark largely used in tanning; the intensely bitter inner bark yields a valuable yellow dye, and is 

 occasionally used medicinally in tlie form of decoctions, etc., in the treatment of hemorrhage {U. S. Dispensatory, 

 14 ed. 756. N^at. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 1196). 



275. Quercus Kelloggii, Newberry, 



Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 89, 286, f. 6. Torrey, Bot. Wilkes Exped. -lee. R. Brown Campst. Horse Sylvanse, 58, f. 4-6. Engelmann in 

 Bot. California, ii, 99. 



Q. rubra, Bentham,Pl. Hartweg. 337 [not Linnseus]. 



Q. tinctoria, var. Californica, Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 138 ; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 205 ; Ives' Rep. 28. 



Q. Californica, Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 261. 



Q. 8om>mensis, Bentham in De Candolle Prodr. xvi^, 62. Bolander in Proc. California Acad, iii, 230. Orsted in Saerskitt. 

 Aftryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 1866, 72. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 27. Engelmann in Wheeler's Rep. 

 vi, 374. Palmer in Am. Nat. xii, 596. 



BLACK OAK. 



Valley of the Mackenzie river, Oregon, south through the Coast ranges and along the western slopes of the 

 Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino mouutains to the southern borders of California. 



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