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10. Quercus oblongifolia Torr. in Sitgreaves, Rep. Zufi & Colo. 173. 1853. 
TypE Locaity: ‘‘Western New Mexico.”’ Arizona was a part of New Mexico at 
this time and, as the expedition started from what is now extreme western New 
Mexico, this locality must have been in western Arizona. 
RANGE: Western and southern Arizona, southeastern California, southwestern New 
Mexico, and adjacent Sonora. 
New Mexico: Dog Spring; Guadalupe Canyon. Mountains, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
This species has frequently been confused with Q. undulata, Q. grisea, and Q. ari- 
zonica. The characters used in the key will separate these species at once. This is 
not at all closely related to the first-named species, but very near the other two. When 
mature it is a low, spreading tree of the live-oak type with oblong leaves which are 
wholly glabrous, as are the young twigs. 
11. Quercus grisea Liebm. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1854: 171. 1854. 
Quercus undulata grisea Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 3: 393. 1877. 
TypE LOCALITY: ‘‘Texas. Nov. Mexico pr. el Paso.’’ The type is Wright’s 665 from 
western Texas. 
RaNnGeE: Western Texas, New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Santa Clara Canyon; Magdalena Mountains; 
Bear Mountain; Florida Mountains; near Hermosa; Organ Mountains; Guadalupe 
Mountains; White Mountains; Llano Estacado; San Luis Mountains; Kingston; Burro 
Mountains. Drier, rocky foothills of the mountains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
New Mexico seems to be the region in which Q. grisea and Q. arizonica meet, the 
former coming in from Texas and the latter from Arizona. They are closely related 
species, possibly too closely for convenient separation, but there are slight differences 
in the general form of the trees, hard to describe but moderately easy to see, and the 
acorns are noticeably different. 
Generally speaking, Q. grisea is a low scrubby tree (young ones which do not yet 
bear forming much of the scrub oak of the lower slopes of the mountains in the southern 
part of the State), small groups of which growing in open canyons or on slopes fre- 
quently give the impression of an old apple orchard. Q. arizonica is usually a larger 
tree, though never with a very tall trunk. It is commonly much branched from 
near the base and wide spreading. 
Quercus grisea is variously confused by different authors with Q. undulata, a low 
shrub of the mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, and with 
Q. oblongifolia, a tree from farther west. 
Quercus grisea < emoryi. 
A large, round-topped tree with dark gray trunk and limbs, and slender young 
twigs with dense, yellowish, stellate pubescence; young leaves yellowish green, 
becoming gray-green and glabrous above; most of the leaves oblong, entire, some with 
a few coarse, spinulose teeth, their texture subcoriaceous, thinner than in either of 
the species; young fruit with the cup of Q. grisea. 
Collected on the Rio Frisco near Lone Pine, in 1904, by E. O. Wooton (no. 3115). 
This may prove to be a new species, rather than a hybrid. 
12. Quercus arizonica Sarg. Gard. & For. 8: 92. 1895. ARIZONA OAK. 
TypPE LocALity: Southern Arizona. 
RanaeE: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Clara Canyon; Mogollon Mountains; Bear Mountain; Black 
Range; Burro Mountains; Big Hatchet Mountains; San Luis Mountains; Lordsburg; 
Animas Mountains; Organ Mountains; Oscuro Mountains; Capitan Mountains; White 
Mountains. Lower parts of drier mountains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
This and Q. grisea are the common live oak trees of the drier and lower mountains 
of the southern part of the State. They are commonly found among the rocks and 
