SWAMP WHITE OAK (Quercus plaianaides, Sudw.). 70 to 100 feet. Shaggy, picturesque, rugged tree, with short, hor izontal branches, drooping below, ending in tufts of twigs that die and persist. Bark pale grayish brown, peeling in thin flakes from trunk and limbs, somewhat after the manner of the sycamore. Wood pale brown, heavy, coarse, tough, used as other white oak is. Leaves obovate, 5 to 7 inches long, wedge shaped at base, wavy-margined, with small, rounded lobes, dull, dark green above, white downy beneath. Petioles
stout. Flowers hairy, moncecious: staminate in catkins; pistillate few, spiked. Acorns annual, paired, on long stem; nut oval, 1 to 11 inches long, brown, hairy at tip, in rough cup with thick scales, often fringed at top; kernel sweet, edible. Dist.: Moist or swampy soil, Maine to Iowa; south to Mary land, Kentucky, and Arkansas; along mountains into Georgia. Commonest near Great Lakes. Worthy park tree.