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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

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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
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Fig. 21. Querciu- Phellos. linear oblong, ovate lanceolate or sometimes lauceolate-obo-vate, ncute at both ends often falcate, entire or undulate mar-gin, 2y2-5 long, 1/2-! wide, borne on short petioles, thick,smooth and shining above, paler and somewhat hairy beneath.Acorns borne usually solitary, sessile or very short-stalked;nut subglobose or hemispherical, covered with pale pubescence, Bulletin of the Umversity of Texas inclosed orJy at the base in the shallow saucer-shaped cup;scales of cup close, thin, hairy dark reddish brown. New York to Florida, west to Kentuck)^ Missouri andTexas. It prefers wet sandy soil and is found principallyalong swamps, but sometimes occurs on highland. In Texasit extends to the Sabine Eiver. The tree has been planted extensively for ornament. It is.hardy as far north as southern New England. The wood is-used in somewhat the same way as Quercus rubra.

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