Castanopsis. CUPULIPER.B. 



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medullary rays broad, conspicuous ; color light brown tinged with red, the 

 sap-wood much lighter ; occasionally used for clapboards, shingles, etc. 



286. Quercus Phellos, L. 

 Willow Oak. Peach Oak. 



Statcii Island, New York, south near the coast to northeastern Florida, 

 through the Gulf States to the valley of the Sabine Eiver, Texas, and 

 through Arkansas to southeastern Missouri, Tennessee, and southern 

 Kentucky. 



A tree 18 to 24 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.90 metre 

 in diameter; bottom-lands or rich sandy uplands. 



Wood heavy, strong, not hard, rather close-grained, compact ; layers of 

 annual growth marked by several rows of small open ducts; medullary 

 rays few, distant ; color light brown tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter 

 red ; somewhat used for fellies of wheels, clapboards, in construction, etc. 



287. Quercus densifiora, Hook. & Am. 

 Tan-bark Oak. Chestnut Oak. Peach Oak. 



Southwestern Oregon, south through the Coast Ranges to the Santa 

 Lucia Mountains, California. 



A tree 18 to 24 metres in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 0.90 metre in 

 diameter ; rich valleys and banks of streams ; most common and reaching 

 its greatest development in the redwood forests of the California coast. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, very close-grained, compact, containing 

 broad bands of small open ducts parallel to the thin dark conspicuous 

 medullary rays; color bright reddish-brown, the thick sap-wood darker 

 brown ; largely used as fuel. 



The bark, rich in tannin, is very largely used, and preferred to that of 

 any other tree of the Pacific forests, for tanning. 



288. Castanopsis chrysophylla, A. DC. 

 Chinquapin. 



Cascade Mountains, Oregon, below 4,000 feet elevation, south along 

 ■the western slopes of the Sierras, and through the California Coast Ranges 

 to the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains. 



A tree 15 to 24 metres in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.90 metre in 

 diameter, or at high elevations and toward its southern limits reduced to a 

 low shrub ; most common and reaching its greatest development in the 

 Coast Range valleys of northern California ; at its southern limits rarely 

 below 10,000 feet elevation. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact ; layers of annual 

 growth marked by a single row of rather large open ducts ; medullary 

 rays numerous, obscure ; color light brown tinged with red, the sap- 

 wood lighter ; in southern Oregon occasionally used in the manufacture 

 of ploughs and other agricultural implements. 



