872 ARBORETUM EV FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Champlain, in Pennsylvania, and high mountains in Carolina and 
Georgia. 
¥ Q. 4. 2 sinudsa Michx. Quer. t. 25.—Leaves deeply sinuated. Cup flat 
and turbinated. Nut ovate. Native of South Carolina and Georgia. 
The trunk is straight, and is covered with a deeply furrowed bark of mid- 
dling thickness, but always black, or of a very deep brown colour; whence 
probably the tree derives its common name in America, viz. the black oak. 
The dark hue of the bark easily distinguishes this tree from Q. rubra, Q. coc- 
cinea, and Q. ambfgua, in the northern provinces ; but, in the southern ones, 
1588. @. tinctoria. 
Q. falcata having bark of the same colour, Q. tinctoria can only be dis- 
tinguished by its buds, which are longer, more acuminate, and more scaly, 
than those of the former species. The inner bark of Q. tinctoria, if chewed, 
is very bitter, and gives a yellow tinge to the saliva, which is not the case with 
the bark of Q. falcita. The wood is reddish, coarse-grained, and porous, 
like that of all the red oaks. The leaves are large, deeply laciniated, and 
resemble those of Q. coccinea, but they have fewer lobes, never exceeding 
four or five; while the leaves of the old trees of Q. coccinea have from five 
to seven: they are also less openly and roundly sinuated, less shining, and ofa 
duller green ; and, during a part of the summer, have their surfaces roughened 
with small glands, which are visible to the eye and sensible to the touch, and 
which are also found on the young shoots. Jn autumn, the leaves of young 
trees turn to a dull red; but those on old trees become yellow, or of a yel- 
lowish brown, beginning with the petiole. The wood is used as a substitute 
for the white oak, and the bark for tanning, and for dyeing leather a brilliant 
yellow. 
¥ 19. Q. paLu’stris Willd. The Marsh, or Pin, Oak. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. P1., 4. p. 446. ; Michx. Quer., No. 19. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 631. 
Synonymes. Q. montana Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836; Q. Ban{ster? Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. 
Hnpravings. Michx. Quer., t. 33, 34.; N. Amer. Syl., 1. t. 27.3 
the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. viii.; and our 
Jig. 1589. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves smooth, oblong, deeply 
and widely sinuated, on long stalks ; lobes dis- 
tant, parallel, acute, sharply toothed, bristle- 
pointed; forks of the veins densely woolly be- 
neath. Calyx of the fruit flattened. Nut nearly 
globose. (Willd.) A large deciduous tree. 
Northern’ States of North America. Height 
80 ft. Introduced in 1800. 
The tree, when young, assumes an agreeable 
pyramidal shape; and its far-extending drooping 
branches, and light and elegant foliage, render it, 
in our opinion, the most graceful of all oaks. The Aik\ 
bark on the oldest trees of Q. palistris is scarcely SHEIK 
ever cracked: on young trees it is perfectly smooth. 1589. Q. paldstals, 
