YELLOW OAK; CHESTNUT OAK (Quereus acuminata, Sarg.). BO to 140 feet. Tall, straight tree with round head of tremu lous, shining foliage. Bark thin, silvery, shedding in loose scales. Wood heavy, hard, strong, coarse-grained, durable, used for barrels, fencing, and railroad ties. Leaves crowded on ends of twigs, 4 to 7 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, coarsely and sharply toothed, yellow-green above, pale, often silvery and velvety on lower surface, leathery, much resembling chest nut leaves. Flowers same as preceding species. Acorns much
like those of the preceding species, but smaller._ Dist.: Dry banks or bottom lands, Vermont to Minnesota; south to Dis trict of Columbia; along mountains to Alabama; west to Arkansas and Texas. Rare and local in Atlantic States.