84 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PLATE XLI. QUERCUS PRINUS. 



1. Winter buds. 



2. Flowering branch. 



3. Sterile flower, back view. 



4. Sterile flower, front view. 



5. Fertile flowers. 



6. Fruiting branch. 



7. Variant leaf. 



Quercus Muhlenbergii, Engelm. 



Quercus acuminata, Sarg. 



CHESTNUT OAK. 



Habitat and Range. Dry hillsides, limestone ridges, rich 

 bottoms. 



Ontario. 



Vermont, Gardner's island, Lake Champlain ; Ferrisburg 

 (Pringle) ; Connecticut, frequent (J. N. Bishop, 1895); on 

 the limestone formation in the neighborhood of Kent (Litch- 

 field county, C. K. Averill) ; often confounded by collectors 

 with Q. Prinus ; probably there are other stations. Not 

 authoritatively reported from the other New England states. 



South to Delaware and District of Columbia, along the mountains 

 to northern Alabama ; west to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian 

 territory, and Texas. 



Habit. A medium-sized tree, 30-40 feet high, with a trunk 

 diameter of 1-2 feet, attaining much greater dimensions in the 

 basins of the Ohio, Mississippi, and their tributaries ; trunk in 

 old trees enlarged at the base, erect, branches rather short for 

 the genus, forming a narrow oblong or roundish head. 



Bark. Bark of trunk and large branches grayish or pale 

 ash-colored, comparatively thin, flaky ; branchlets grayish- 

 brown ; season's shoots in early summer purplish-green with 

 pale dots. 



Winter Buds and Leaves. Buds ovate, acute to obtuse, 

 brownish. Leaves simple, alternate ; in the typical form as 

 recognized by Muhlenburg, 3-6 inches long, 1-J 2 inches wide, 



