SPANISH OAK (Quercus digitata, Sudw.). 70 to 80 feet. Hound-headed, open tree, with stout branches, coated with orange, clammy tomentum, like the young leaves. Bark brown, cleft into broad, scaly ridges; branches ashy or brown. Wood hard, light red, coarse, strong, used locally in building and for fuel. Leaves oblong or obovate, often with no lobes at all; normally cut by deep, wide, rounded sinuses into 3 to 7 narrow, long, often curved rarely toothed lobes; thin, flex ible, firm, lustrous, dark green above, pale or rusty pubescent helow; petioles slender, flat, drooping. Acorns rounded at
top and base, I inch long, orange-brown, set for I of length in thin, saucer-shaped, flat-bottomed cup. Dist.: Dry, up 'and ridges and swampy land, southern New Jersey to central Florida; west to Missouri and Texas.