TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 101 



ADDENDUM 



Quercus Schneckii Britton. Swamp Red Oak. 



A large tree of rich low grounds near streams 

 with a general appearance that is much like that of 

 the Pin Oak, but with less drooping branches, and 

 in Chapel Hill with deeper green and more glisten- 

 ing foliage than in that species, and a more hand- 

 some tree. Leaves almost exactly like those of the 

 Pin Oak in shape and texture, and with the same 

 conspicuous tufts of down in the axils of the large 

 veins, but averaging larger, the blade running 12-14 

 cm. (4?/ 4 -5 l / 2 inches) wide and long on large trees. 

 Acorns much larger and of different shape than the 

 Pin Oak and the stalks usually much longer, varying 

 from 1 / 5 - 2 / 3 of an inch long. Acorn ovate, about one 

 inch long counting the point, and nearly 3 / 4 inch 

 thick, nearly smooth above, slightly scurfy below; 

 cup 3 / 4 inch wide, only about J /4 i ncn deep, embrac- 

 ing about 1 / 4 of the acorn ; inside of cup shining and 

 nearly or quite smooth. Taste of acorn flesh mildly 

 bitterish. Buds much larger than in Pin Ojlfak, */4 

 inch long, pointed and narrowly ovate, bluntly angu- 

 lar, grayish brown. Bark very smooth on branches, 

 very little roughened even on the main trunk below, 

 the central region showing a striped appearance from 

 the cracking o^ the thin bark. Examples : trees near 

 Morgan's Creek on Mason Farm; at Scott's Hole; 

 near Handcock's bridge on Bowlin's Creek, and one 

 tree near Sparrow's Mill. 



