Emory's Oak 



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Fig. 270. — Emory's Oak,near Grahajn, Socorro Co., N. M. 



The branches are stout, stiff, the lower somewhat pendulous, forming a broad 

 round tree. The bark is up to 5 cm. thick, deeply fissured into long thick plates, 

 covered with dark brown to black scales. The twigs are slender, stiff, and downy, 

 becoming brown and less hairy, finally smooth and reddish brown or black. The 

 buds are ovoid, sharp-pointed, about 6 mm. long, their scales brown with hairy 

 tips. The leaves are oblong to lanceolate, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, sharp and bristle- 

 pointed, heart-shaped, or rarely rounded at the somewhat narrowed base, entire 

 or sparingly broadly toothed with bristle-tipped teeth on the revolute margin; 



