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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



tinged with red, generally smooth but on old trees broken by shallow narrow fissures 

 into irregular plates covered by small closely appressed scales. Wood heavy, strong, 

 not hard, rather coarse-grained, light brown tinged with red, with thin lighter colored 

 sapwood; occasionally used in construction, for clapboards and the fellies of wheels. 



Distribution. Low wet borders of swamps and streams and rich sandy uplands; 

 Staten Island, New York, to northeastern Florida, through the Gulf states to the 

 valley of the Sabine River, Texas, and through Arkansas and southeastern Missouri 

 to central Tennessee and southern Kentucky; in the Atlantic states usually confined 

 to the maritime plain; less common in the middle districts, rarely extending to the 

 Appalachian foothills. 



Occasionally planted as a shade-tree in the streets of southern towns, and rarely in 

 western Europe. 



Quercus Rudkini, Britt., a supposed hybrid between Quercus Phellos and Quercus 

 Marilandica, is common on Staten Island and in southern New Jersey. 



Quercus heterophylla, Michx. f. 



This is perhaps a hybrid between Quercus Phellos and Quercus velutina. It was first 



