216 TURKEY OAK 



y~7 /~7 Buds enclosed in one or more true scales, 

 not naked. 



Bud-scales several or many, spirally 

 imbricate. 



$ Buds aggregated at the tips of the 

 twigs, ovoid ; bud-scales numerous, 

 imbricated in 5 ranks ; branches with 

 scars of cast twigs. Pith ^-ranged. 

 Leaf -scars more or less semi-lunate to 

 crescentic, small, with numerous leaf- 

 trace bundles. 



-T- Buds hairy, and surrounded with 

 persistent filamentous stipules of 

 fallen leaves ; apex of twigs grey 



Quercus Cerris, L. Turkey Oak, Mossy-cupped Oak. 

 The grey fimbriated buds at the apex of the twig are very 

 characteristic. Twigs more or less angular, passing to 

 smooth olive-green or tawny; branches grey to slate- 

 coloured, with prominent leaf-bases and lenticels. Buds 

 with rather few scales for an Oak, and blunt ; the scales 

 ciliate and pubescent. On the dwarf-shoots the stipules 

 may be less persistent. Leaf-scars small, semi-lunate, with 

 about 7 minute leaf- trace bundles, not grouped (Fig. 59 I). 

 The outer scales of the terminal bud are formed by the 

 stipules of the last leaves of the preceding season. 



-T- -r- Buds tawny, glabrous and glisten- 

 ing, blunt-ovoid, with numerous 

 scales, and without the sheath of 

 filamentous stipules. 



Q. Robur, L. Oak (Figs. Ill and 30). Shoots fairly 

 stout, and leaf-scars small, triangular-lunate, or nearly 

 elliptical, with numerous grouped leaf- traces, on project- 

 ing leaf-bases (Fig. 59 ri)\ twigs silvery or greenish grey 



