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DENSE-FLOWERED OAK. 
softly clothed beneath with dense stellate brownish 
hairs, but at length become smooth; they are about 4 
inches long and 1 to H wide. The catkins are erect, 
about 4 inches long, presenting the appearance of cy- 
lindric, woolly spikes, beset with numerous exserted 
stamens with long slender filaments, as in the Chestnut. 
The cup is shallow and patulous, within and without 
softly sericeous, the scales numerous and acuminate, 
very loose, somewhat spreading and 2-1 to 3 lines long. 
The acorn is large, evidently angular, and more convex 
on one side, covered with whitish down, and terminated 
with several filiform, lanuginous and deciduous stigmas. 
The Castanea chrysophylla of Douglas, if not the same 
plant, appears to be another species of this section or 
genus. 
Plate V. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The acorn. 
