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WESTERN OAK. 
possess no great inequality with each other; the upper 
pair mostly present a notch or small division on the 
lower side, but nothing analogous to the singular obtuse 
dilatation which that part of the leaf exhibits in the 
Post Oak. The acorns, besides being larger, are not 
striated, and the scales of the cup are acuminate, and 
the upper ones free. 
Piate I. 
A young branch, with the leaves not fully expanded, with 
barren aments. 
