File:Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state (1915) (14586345689).jpg

Identifier: treestx00lewi (find matches)
Title: Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lewis, Isaac McKinney, 1878-1943
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Austin, University of Texas
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
83 84 Bulletin of the University of Texas 23. Quercus nigra L. Water Oak. A round topped foresttree sometimes 80° high with slender branches, smooth, lightbrown bark and reddish twigs. Leaves oblong some of them
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 20. Quercus nigra. three or more lobed toward the apex and linear-obovate,2%-6 long, l%-2% wide, dull green above, paler below,petioh>s short. Fruit solitary or in pairs, sessile or shortstalked; acorn ovoid l/2-2/3 long and almost as wide, en-closed at the base in a thin saucer-shaped cup, often striate. The Trees of Texas 8;> Delaware, Florida, west to the Colorado River, Texas.The wood is heavy, hard, close grained and strong. It isused for fuel. 24. Quercus Phellos L. Willow Oak. A forest tree 70^-80° high, with trunk diameter of 2^-4°. The branches aresmall and form a rather narrow, open rounded crown. Thebark is thin, ^^-% thick, light reddish brown, smooth onyoung branches, shallowly fissured on old trunks. Leaves

Note About Images