PLATE LXIV. SCARLET OAK. 



1. Flowering branch witli immature leaves, (s) staniinate Mossonis. (p) pistillate blossoms, 



(i) immature aeorns, s *. 



2. Branch with mature leaves, immature and mature acorns, x :. 



3. An acorn, x J. 



4. Ad acorn cup. x h. 



5. Terminal section of a winter twig, x |. 



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



angular buds covered with numerous over-lapping scales. enlargo<l. 



7. An apical bud-scale with ciliatc margin, enlargwl. 

 S. A basal bud-scale, enlarged 



