SHINGLE OAK; LAUREL OAK (Quereus imbricaria, Miehx ). 60 to 100 feet. Tall, pyramidal tree, becoming round-head ed and picturesque, with pendulous branches and slender, ruddy twigs. Bark light brown, scaly, with shallow fissures and wide ridges. Wood reddish brown, coarse-grained, heavy, used for clapboards and shingles. Leaves oblong, usually entire, acute at base and apex, with thickened, often wavy margin, 4 to 6 inches long, shining, dark green above, paler, pubescent beneath; petioles stout, short, hairy. Flowers hoary tomen
tose, of the oak type. Acorns biennial, broad, short, on stout, short stalks; nut enclosed fcr s to 3 its length in thin, close rimmed, scaly, red-brown cup. Dist.: Bottom land, Penn sylvania to Georgia; west to Nebraska and Arkansas. Planted for its laurel-like foliage. Hardy to Boston.