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Oastaitea pumila {chinquapin chestnut). — Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, short or acutely pointed, coarsely 

 serrate, with in- 

 curved pointed 

 teeth, green above, 

 tomentose under- 

 neath. Burs in ra- 

 cemes (Fig. 21), 

 two-valved. Some- 

 times the burs are 

 single, as shown in 

 Fig. 23. Spines 

 branching from a 

 short stalk ; nuts 

 solitary, OToid, 

 pointed, with dark- 

 brown polished 

 shell. Kernel fine- 

 grained, sweet and 

 excellent. A medi- 

 um-sized tree twenty 

 to forty feet high ; 

 in rich soils from 

 New Jersey, South- 

 e r n Pennsylvania 

 and southward, to 

 Georgia, and spar- 

 ingly westward to 

 Arkansas. 



Castakba sa- 

 tiva or v e s c a 

 {European chest- 

 nut). — Leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 

 pointed, coarsely serrate, with rather long incurved 

 spines on the teeth; smooth on both sides, but glossy 



FIG. 2a. SINGLE BUR, NUT AND LEAF Or 

 CHINQUAPIN CHESTNUT. C.pumila. 



