LEA’S OAK. 
*15 
The full grown leaves are from 5 to 5* inches long, 
by 3 to 3£ wide, smooth and shining above, with a 
small quantity of deciduous stellate pubescence beneath. 
The lobes are about a single pair on a side. The 
central lobe only sometimes again subdivided into three 
lesser lobes, all of them ending in bristles. The base is 
rounded, and often hollowed out, or somewhat sinuated. 
The buds are small and brown. The fertile flower often 
by threes, on a short, thick, common pedicel, the middle 
flower abortive. Male flowers .... not seen. Cups 
rather deep, as in Q. tinctoria, with the scales ovate, 
obtuse, and closely imbricated. The acorn roundish, 
somewhat ovate, broadly striate, with a short roundish 
conic point or umbo about half way, or nearly so, im- 
mersed in the cup. 
Plate ~V.(bis.) 
A branch of the natural size with fruit, a. The cup. b. The 
gland. 
