Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive

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Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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WILLOW OAK. iiercus Phellos L.
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, Fig. 179. Branchlet bearing leaves and mature and young acorns, i ; detached acorns and cups, 2; ibranchlet in winter, 3. i 180. Trunk of tree on grounds of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Handbook of Tkees of the ITorthekn States axd Canada. 159 This curious Oak in forests occasionally at-tains the height of 70 or 80 ft., and whenisolated from other trees develops an ovoid orrounded quite symmetrical top with many slen-der branches. The trunks are sometimes 3 or4 ft. in thickness, columnar and vested in asmoothish bark, somewhat roughened on oldtrunks by shallow longitudinal ridges. It in-habits the margins of swamps and streams andsandy uplands most abundantly in the south-ern states (though not in the immediate vicin-ity of the coast) and in the lower Mississippibasin. It is a handsome tree and especiallycurious to those whose familiarity with theoaks is limited to the broad-leaved species ofthe northern states. This tree to them seemsto have the leaves of a willow and

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