PLATE LXIV. SCARLET OAK. 



1. Flowering branch with immature leaves, (s) staminate blossoms, (p) pistillate blossoms, 



(i) immature acorns, x J. 



Branch with mature leaves, immature and mature acorns, x 1. 

 An acorn, x 1. 

 An acorn cup, x J. 



Terminal section of a winter twig, x 5. 

 Section of a winter twig showing lenticels, leaf -scars with bundle-scars, and two slightly 



angular buds covered with numerous over-lapping scales, enlarged. 

 An apical bud-scale with ciliate margin, enlarged. 

 A basal bud-scale, enlarged. 



