Douglasiane. N. O. Cupuliferx. 
TAB. CCCLAXAALL 
Quercus DoveLasit. 
This I take to be the young branches with male flowers of 
the oak described in the next page. The shape of the leaves 18 
the same, but these are in a nascent state, and clothed with a 
minute cinereous down. The catkins are axillary, drooping, of 
several rather closely placed flowers, which are sessile on the 
tachis. Perianth deeply 5-cleft, having ovates acute, serrated 
and ciliated segments, with about six stamens. Filaments — 
short. Anthers large, 2 celled. aoe 
Fig. 1, Portion of a male catkin with 2 flowers. Jo 2 Peri- 
anth, from which the stamens are removed. f- 3+ Front views 
and f. 4, back view of a stamen :—magnified- 
