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instates Q. Gambellii Nutt.; maintains Q. vaccinifolia-\ Kell. the 

 alpine form of Q. chrysolepis as "at least a fairly good sub- 

 species, its small entire leaves and its young branches being wholly 



Q 



Q 



during the lifetime of Dr. Kellogg on evidence which satisfied him, 

 to be a hybrid (Bull. Cal. Acad, i, 146), "is no hybrid but a clear 



Q. Wislizeni 



Q 



Q. Dunnii Kell., because Dr. Engelmann described it hrst as a sub- 

 species, and according to the author, " It is the rule of botanists who 

 do not recognize subspecies In nomenclature, to treat subspecific 



names as equivalent to specific." 



While there is no doubt that the botanist Palmer, and not the 

 entomologist Dunn, was the discoverer of the shrub, it is equally 

 certain that Dr. Engelmann used "subspecific" as equivalent to 

 "variety" at least in most cases, and in this particular instance 

 testifies (Bot. Cal, ii, 97) to such use of it himself 



Of Q. tomentella the author says it has not been found on the 

 islands of Santa Catalina in which statement he Is in error, for it is 

 enumerated in Lyon's Catalina list, and the writer found it in abund- 

 ance. Q. turbinella is reduced by implication to a form of Q- 

 pungeyts Liebm. Var. polycarpa of Q. dumosa is similarly reduced; 

 var. elegantula of MacBonaldi is considered to be a hybrid of 0. 



Q 



Q 



Q Ramomi is the earliest synonym of the Californian Q. oblmgifolia, and therefore 

 antedates Q Engehnanni, one of the types of which, pi. ix, fig. 3, as well as one 

 of the specimens on which var. eleganinla of Q. MacDonahh was founded, were 

 collected at Tehachapi. The striation of the acorns which Mr. Greene rehes upon 

 as diagnostic will not be found constant even in species like Q. Wishzem where 

 it is most pronounced. 



tMr Greene seems not to be aware that all of Dr. Kellogg's new species of oaks 

 excepting Q. Ransomi are represented in the herbarium of the California Academy 

 of Sciences by colored drawings made by himself. Q. vacdnifohaVxoc Cal. 

 Acad, i, 96, is described as "fuscous and stellate-pubescent beneath, and agam 

 with "lower surface somewhat tan-colored," and the painting fully agrees with the 



description. 



