Excerpt from Trees and Shrubs of Mexico: Fagaceae, Fabaceae Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, deciduous or persistent, entire, toothed, or lobed, the teeth and lobes often bristle-tipped flowers monoecious, the staminate ones in slender catkins; stamens 6 to 12; pistillate flowers solitary or in small clusters ovules 6, but only one maturing; fruit an acorn, sub tended by ah enlarged cup (involucre). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.