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F'AGAGEAE. 
2. Buds conical-fusiform, large (8-10 mm. long). 3. 
10. 
HH, 
12. 
13. 
14, 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
entirely glabrous. 
more or less silky, or tardily glabrescent. 13. 
almost woolly, dull gray-brown. 
red, relatively large (3X5 mm.). 
brown, smaller (23-4 mm.). 12. 
rather obtuse. 
(Willow oak). 
almost blood-red. 
(Shingle oak). 
brownish-red, or at first silvery-pubescent. 14. 
for) 
. Evergreen. 
Buds ovoid or conical-ovoid or else very thick. 4. 
. Twigs glabrous. (1). Q. laevis. 
Twigs puberulent. 
(Blackjack). Q. marilandica. 
Q. laurifolia. 
Deciduous. 5. 
. Buds dull clay-colored, glab- 
rous. (2). Q. Schneckii. 
Buds red or brown or silky. 6. 
. Buds large (7-10 mm.), hairy, 
angular. (3). Q. velutina. 
Buds moderate or small. 7. 
. Twigs tomentulose. 8. 
Twigs glabrous. 9. 
. Buds short (4 mm.): glabrous. 
(Bear oak). Q. ilicifolia. 
Buds long (3X7 mm.), silky. 
(5). Q. cinerea. 
. Buds small (3 mm. long), 
glabrate. Q. georgiana. 
Buds larger or hairy. 10. 
11. 
Buds large (45-6 mm.). 
Buds 
(6). Q. nigra. 
(7). Q. rubra. 
(Pin oak). Q. palustris. 
Q. Phellos. 
(Spanish oak). Q. falcata. 
Q. imbricaria. 
(8). Q. coccinea. 
smaller (scarcely 3X4 mm.). 15. 
