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SESSILE OAK 



more crowded acorns, downy twigs, and petiolate leaves, 

 glabrous beneath. The acorns are often fewer (1 3), but 



Fig. 89. Sessile-flowered Oak, Quercus Robur, var. sessiliflora. 1, 

 flowering shoot, the ? flowers in the uppermost leaf-axils; 2, apex of 

 branch with the sessile acorns; 3, a female flower; 4, portion of g catkin, 

 p. 256 (Wi). 



