Growing on rotten wood, especially of oak. "The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio" by A. P. Morgan

It was a small oak room with a stone floor, and a curious smell at once attracted his notice. "War and the Weird" by Forbes Phillips R. Thurston Hopkins

The timber in the range consists of the various kinds of oak and pine, with some cedar and spruce; it is not valuable, but will answer the wants of this range for the present. "Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) Ingalls

He called the boy Frithiof an oak, for he was straight and strong. "Northland Heroes" by Florence Holbrook

It was not a cheerful night, for the wind had risen, and was moaning among the she- oak trees like a million lost spirits. "A Crime of the Under-seas" by Guy Boothby