BEECH AND OAK FAMILY (FAGACEAE) 477 



FIG. 419. Stripping cork from the Cork Oak. After Lecomte. 



FIG. 420. The flowers and fruit of the Red Mulberry. Above, from left 

 to right, a spike of staminate flowers, a spike of pistillate flowers, and a pis- 

 tillate spike in fruit (natural size) ; at the bottom, a staminate and pistillate 

 flower much enlarged. After Burns and Otis. 



