302 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



wool (fig. 137). Wood hard, fine-grained, and light yellowish brown. So little 

 is known of this oak now that nothing can be said of its economic qualities. 

 Probably too rare and of too limited supply to be of any importance commer- 

 cially. 



Fig. 137. — Qucrcus tomentella. 



Longevity.— Probably moderately long-lived. One tree 4i inches in diameter 

 (inside bark) showed an age of 44 years 



