314 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Water Oak, Q, aquatica, Catesb iin which has narrower are tapering 
to the base, is found in wet groun 
in the Southern State 
10, Q. falea’ta, Mz. Leaves elongated and rather narrow, sinuate-lobed, 
or sometimes almost palmately 3-lobed, obtuse at bee densely tomen- 
tose beneath; lateral lobes falcate, the terminal one longer and trifid ; 
cupule shallow, subturbinate ; acorn roundish-ovoid. 
Farcare Quercus. Spanish Oak. 
Stem 40-50 or 80 feet high, and 1 or 2-4 fect in diameter. Leaves 6 and 9 inches 
long, 1 4or 5 (usually 3) distant more or less falcate entire a - each side— 
those on small trees pet young branches often dilated and 3-lobed at ‘shallow sive ae | ae 
lobes diverging ; petioles about an inch long. Acorn small, seated ina s 
ups bs . tapering at ‘base and supported on a short peduncle. 
terile clay soils : New Jersey to Georgia. 
On “This tree (mich i is the genuine “Spanish Oak,”)—so far 
have ed—seems to be pretty much confined to that district, song 
the ‘Atlantic coast, which 3 is marked as alluvial on Geological maps. 
om said to grow very large, in the South; but is rather below an pom 
near Its northern limits. The tim! timber r is , Coa and 
or ‘very durable,—but is much used for the inferior kinds of coopers’ 
ark, pein dt, dig ge ed as preferable to okt of every other 
r tanp 
sq illieif Woes 
ped base, and ee about 5-lobed. It is a worthless lit 
— 3-8 feet high ; abounain g on poor soils from New cone to 
irginia and westward to Ohi 
Fic. 209. The Black Jack or Barren Oak (Quercus nigra). pape An acorn. 
Fig. 211. The Spanish Oak (Quercus falcata). 212. An 
