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196 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Quercus braweri Etigelm. Bot. Cal. ii. 98 (1880). Type locality, " on the middle 

 or higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, from Calaveras County to the Oregon 



line." 



Quercus cerstediana, 1 to which Q. breweri has recently been referred, 3 cannot be, 

 if it was accurately described by Brown, the same oak as this species. Its leaves 

 are said to have "acutely cut lobes on either side," and a petiole "1J inch long," 

 characters which cannot apply to Q. breweri. The former name should therefore be 

 retained until the type specimens of Q. cerstediana can bo examined. Specimens 

 from the Siskiyou Mountains, named by Professor Greene Q. cerstediana, have longer 

 petioles than our plant, and acutely lobed loaves. They are, with little doubt, true Q. 

 cerstediana. These specimens differ from ours in the details mentioned above, and 

 furthermore, in their very large buds. The buds of the two plants have about the 

 same relative size as those of Q. garryana and Q. lobata. Plate x of Greene's West 

 American Oaks, undoubtedly represents true Q. Ireweri. 



The species was observed only in the valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1314), 

 forming an important part of the chaparral immediately below the yellow pines. 



Quercus californica (Torr.) Pac. R. Rep. iv. 138 (1857), as Q. tinetoria Califor- 

 nia; Cooper, Rep. Smithson. Inst., 1858, 261 (1850). Type locality, " hillsidss, Napa 

 Valley," California. 



Newberry's name Q. kelloggii 3 is antedated by Torrey's variety californica by only a 

 short time. The title page of the fourth volume of the Pacific Railroad Report bears 

 the date 1856, but the preface of Torrey's report, contained therein, is dated January 

 12, 1857. It appears, therefore, that a part at least of this volume did not appear 

 until 1857. The sixth volume bears the same date, 1857, but came out later in that 

 year than the fourth, for Newberry quoted in it Torrey's name for the tree, with 

 the volume and page on which it was published. 



The tree was found on Frazier Mountain (No. 1200) ; along the East Fork of the 

 Kaweah from Big Tree Canon to a point about 6 kilometers below Mineral King ; in 

 Kings River Canon (No. 2105) ; and on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 

 6 kilometers west of Independence (No. 2107). At no poiut did it occur in great 

 abundance, but scattered among the yellow or black pines. 



Quercus chrysolepis Liebm. Dansk. Vidensk. Forhandl. 1854, 173 (1854). Type 

 locality, "California." 



The sheet of Bentham's Plants Hartwo^ianse, on which this species is described, 

 on page 336, bears the date upon its signature "Feb., 1857," not 1849, as usually quoted, 

 the latter date belonging to preceding sheets of that work. Liebmann's Mine there- 

 fore antedates Kellogg's Q. fulvescem by but a single year. Type locality, as taken 

 from Plant* Hartwegianas, page 337, "in montibus Carmel prope Monterey." 



This tree was found in abundance back of Fort Tejon (No. 1156), and along the 

 East Fork of the Kaweah. It occurred also on the south slope of Cajon Pass and in 

 Kin»-s River Canon (No. 2104). The tree is characteristic of the chaparral belt, in 

 the higher parts of it being reduced often to a shrub only 2 or 3 meters high. In 

 shaded ravines, as in the Canada de las Uvas, individual trees sometimes descend far 

 below the proper belt of the species. 



Quercus douglasii Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 391 (1841). Type locality, Cali- 

 fornian, but not accurately recorded. The type specimens were collected by Douglas. 



On the road between Kernville and Caliente (No. 10441, and in the foothills of the 

 Liebre Mountains (No. 1141). This oak is the characteristic tree of the Sierran foot- 

 hills along the whole eastern limit of the Tulare Plains. It extends as far up the 



tr. Br. Campst. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vii. 250 (1871). 

 a Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. xxii. 477 (1887). 

 a Pac. R. Rep. vi. pt. iii. 28 (1857). 



