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XCIV. AMENTACE^. 



Flowers rarely complete. Barren Flowers in heads, or catkins, or in rather pendulous 

 spikes. Perianth, if any, superior. These are divided into Tribes. 



1. CUPULTFERiE. — Fertile Flowers surrounded by a coriaceous Involucre; 



not forming a Catldn Gen. 736-729. 



3. SALICINE^.— AH the Flowers in Catkins. Fruit not fleshy, with 1 cell 



and many seeds .......... Gen. 730, 73 1 . 



3. BETULINE^.— Flowers aU in Catkins. Scales of the barren Catkins 



peltate, each 3-flowered. Fi-uit not fleshy, 3-ceIled. Seeds solitary . Gen. 732, 738. 



4. PLATANEiE. — Flowers aU in dependent, ball-like Catkins. Scales and 



Flowers irregularly intermixed. Cai-pels 1 or 2, each of 1 cell and 1 seed Gen. 734. 



5. MYRICEJi]. — Flowers aU in Catkins. Scales of barren Catkins 1-flowered. 



Fruit a Drupe, formed by the fleshy scales of the catkin . . . Gen. 735. 



Tribe I. CUPULIFEBJi. 

 726. FAGUS. 



1. Castanea. L. lanceolate, acutely ser- 

 rate, smooth beneath. Prickles of outer Cal. 

 compound, entangled. Stigmas 6. l.T. 2-5. 

 IVoods. 



2. sylvatica. L. ovate, slightly serrate, 

 wdth silky cilia when young. Prickles of outer 

 Cal. simple. Stigmas 3. l.T. 4, 5. Woods. 



727. QUERCUS. 



A. L. decidicous. 

 i. Scales of Cup spreading. 



1. Fontanesii. L. siiiuato-seri'ate, with 

 stellate pubescence above, tomentose beneath. 

 Lobes mucronate. Bark corky. Cups on 

 short stalks, with long, linear, recurved scales. 

 l.T. 4, 5. IFoods. Calabria. Bosco deUa 

 Fienza, Sic. 



2. .SIgilops. L. ovato-oblong, serrate, si- 

 nuate. Lobes acute, cuspidate. Cal. hemi- 



spherical, very large. 

 Verona, rare. Sic. 



l.T. 5. Vicenza and 



3. Cerris. L. oblong, sinuato-pinnatifid. 

 Lobes oblong, rounded, generally with a small 

 cusp. Scales of Cup long, twisted. l.T. 5. 

 s. Eur. w. Fr. 



)3. austriaca. L. sKghtly sinuate. 



The Fruit does not ripen till the second 

 year, and is consequently beloio the L. 



4. Toza. L. oblong, sinuate, or pinnatifid. 

 Lobes ending in an obtuse angle, without 

 cusp. Scales adpressed at base. l.T. w. Fr. 



ii. Scales of Cup adpressed. 



5. apennina. Fertile Fl. scattered along 

 Rachis, which far exceeds L. -stalk. " L. some- 

 what stalked, obovate, sinuate. Lobes entke, 

 obtuse, pubescent beneath. Cup hemispherical 

 (downy, Guss.), about half as long as acorn. 

 Scales lanceolate, somewhat obtuse. l.T. Als. 

 s. Fr."— DuBY. 



6. pedumculata. Fertile Fl. scattered 

 along Rachis, which far exceeds L.-stalk. L. 

 nearly sessile, ovato-oblong, sinuate. Lobes 

 obtuse, entire. l.T. 4. Woods. 



7. intermedia. "L. on long stallcs, cu- 

 neato-obloug, somewhat pinnatifid, covered 

 beneath with a starry pubescence. Lobes short, 

 rounded. Sinuses shallow, obtuse. Base ob- 

 tuse, unequal. Fertile Catkins on very short 

 stalks. Fr. oblong. T. 4, 5. Eng." — Don. 



8. brutia. Fertile Fl. 1-3, crowded at 

 summit of a long rachis. L. oblong, smooth, 

 semipinnatifid. Lobes somewhat dentate on 

 one side. Sinus very acute. l.T. K. Nap. 

 —Ten. 



9. pubescens. Rachis very short. L. ob- 

 longo-eUiptic, stalked. Lobes entire, ending 

 in an obtuse angle, hoary beneath. l.T. 5 . 

 m. and s. Eur. 



10. sessiliflora. Rachis very short. L. 

 obovato-oblong, stalked, sinuate. Lobes en- 

 tire, rounded, generally smooth. l.T. 4, 5. 

 Woods. 



11. leptobalana. "L. smooth above, 

 hoary beneath, somewhat cordate at base, obo- 

 vato-oblong, sinuato-lobate. Lobes short, ob- 

 tuse, entire. Fr. sessile, cylindrical, (3 or 4 

 times as long as broad.) l.T. 4, 5. Woods. 

 Madonie. Cal." — Guss. 



