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TURKEY OAK 



Fruit ripening the second year, single or grouped, on 

 stalks 10 27 mm. long. Cupule urceolate, 1 1'5 cm. 

 deep, and about 3'5 cm. in diameter, densely covered with 



Fig. 91. Turkey Oak, QiiercHs Cerris, p. 261 (Sc). 



subulate, stiff or curled, rounded, brown-tomentose, in 

 part recurved and pointed scales, from which the name 



