OAK 



217 



passing to tawny, glabrous, and somewhat rigid. Pith 

 pentangular-stellate. Buds crowded, rather large, and 

 sometimes slightly displaced from the axils. Lenticels 

 scattered. Bud-scales pale tawny ciliate ; twigs olive to 



Fig. 111. Oak, Quercus Robur, var. pedunculata, p. 216 (D). 



red-brown and more or less angular, but often silver-grey. 

 Dwarf-shoots numerous and very nodose. 



At the end of the summer the last leaf-structures to 



