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row, thin, flat plates, 5-15°" long, 1.5—3.5°" thick, frequently connected 
by cross plates. It is darkish colored near the ground, dull gray above 
and grayish-brown among the branches, where it is quite smooth and 
but little furrowed. It is coarsely cellular, dull red within, with a thin 
band of yellow or yellowish bark 1-2" thick next the wood. The 
smaller branches are lustrous, the older being green tinged with red. 
Those of the second year are greenish-brown to olivaceous, those of 
the year brown to reddish-brown, both often mottled with spots or- 
areas of gray. The younger are well furnished with small, grayish, 
oblong or roundish, raised lenticels. The winter buds are 4-8" 
long, ovate, obtuse or acutish, sometimes slightly angled. The scales 
ae ovate to oval, ciliolate, the outer brown to reddish-brown, with a 
sy Or grayish pubescence, the apex blunt or rounded. The unfold- 
een spreading or a little drooping, often slightly tinged with 
"et, densely covered with white tomentum, giving the foliage a silvery- 
Senne. The stipules are r2-15™" long, scarious or mem- 
gin Shia oblanceolate-linear to linear, hairy on the mar- 
become oe a few scattered hairs on the surface. The leaves soon 
beneath oa and lustrous green above, lighter green and smooth 
veins, a slight tufts of pale hairs in the axils of the principal 
somewhat i oe net mess" long, 5-12™ wide, oval-orbicular or 
above the oe in outline, the broadest part usually just 
tounded at th - and ne deeply cut into 5—7 lobes by broad sinuses 
he lobes A ase which extend halfway or nearly to the midrib. 
quadrangular nee ly oblong, the terminal broader and somewhat 
middle. The sides nearly parallel or a little diverging above the 
€ base of ~ : three to five triangular teeth with slender bristles. 
one side usual] a is bluntly cuneate to truncate, the parenchyma of 
long cn, eg lower. The petioles are rather slender, 2.5~5 
2 td Out 4%), usually tinged with red on the upper side. 
»MOre or they leaves varies, but in most is yellowish to pale 
change to a vin fess blotched or tinged with red or purple. Some 
*ppeara; ous Or crimson purple, giving the tree a dark reddish 
hee. In the w} 
winter they are pale brown. 
© aments are in c] ' us gee 
Pu Tulent, from a0 usters, slender, 5-8" long, loosely flo : 
- leafy shoots aS buds which after flowering may be prolonge 
tinged With shin he calyx is membranaceous, campanulate, usually 
long, Ova Be red, two to five-lobed, cleft, parted, or divided into 
€ Or roundish segments, their shape depending on 
