PLATE LX. 



CHESTNUT OAK. 



1. Flowering bracch with immature leaves, (s) staminate blossoms, (p) pistillate blossoms, x J. 



2. Blanch with mature leaves and mature acorns, x J. 



3. An acorn cup, x i. 



4. An acorn, x I. 



5. A winter twig sliowing buds, lenticels, leaf-scars, fluted bark, and pentangular pith, x i. 



6. Section of a winter twig, enlarged. 



7. Cross; section of a twig showing pentangular pith, wood with conspicuous medullary rays, inner 



and outer bark, enlarged. 



8. A basal bud-scale with hairy margin, enlarged. 



9. An apical bud-scale with hairy margin, enlarged. 



