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firm; upper surface soon glabrous, dark green and glossy; lower surface pale 

 green, puberulent; fruit subsessile; cup hemispheric, 10-12 mm. in diameter; 

 scales ovate, moderately corky-thickened. Table-lands and hills: N.M. Colo. 

 Utah. Submont. Mont. My. 



9. Q. Eastwoodiae Rydb. A shrub 2-3 m. high, not forming thickets; young 

 branchlets densely stellate-pubescent, almost velvety; leaf-blades rounded at 

 the apex, obtuse or acutish at the base, 6-8 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, pale bluish 

 green, on the upper surface slightly stellate, especially on the veins, or glabrate, 

 on the lower paler, strongly reticulate and decidedly stellate, with broad rounded 

 lobes; fruit subsessile; cup hemispheric, 12-14 mm. in diameter; scales ovate, 

 acutish, moderately corky-thickened on the back; acorn round-ellipsoid, mostly 

 half included in the cup. Canons: Utah. Son. 



10. Q. venustula Greene. A small shrub 1-2 m. high; young twigs brown, 

 puberulent or glabrate; leaf -blades 3-6 cm. long, oblanceolate or elliptic in out- 

 line, lobed more than half way to the midrib, firm; upper surface pale bluish 

 green, sparingly stellate, glabrate and glossy; lower surface paler, densely stellate- 

 puberulent, very veiny and reticulate; fruits in peduncled spikes; scales of the cup 

 ovate, corky-thickened on the back. Mountains: Colo. N.M. Submont. 

 Son. 



11. Q. Fendleri Liebm. A shrub 1-3 m. high, scarcely forming thickets; 

 young branches brown, puberulent: leaf-blades lobed about half way to the mid- 

 rib, firm, 3-7 cm. long; upper surface sparingly stellate or glabrate, pale bluish 

 green and shining; lower surface light brownish, stellate-puberulent, strongly 

 veined and reticulate; fruits 2-3 together on a peduncle; cup hemispheric, cover- 

 ing about one-third of the acorn, 10-12 mm. broad; scales ovate and much corky- 

 thickened; acorns 15-18 mm. long. Barren hills: Ariz. Colo. Tex. Son. 

 Submont. My. 



12. Q. pungens Liebm. A low shrub 1-3 m. high, rarely larger; younger 

 twigs yellowish or brownish, densely stellate-pubescent; leaf-blades oval or 

 broadly oblong, obtuse at the base, acute at the apex, deeply sinuately toothed, 

 3-5 cm. long, thick and firm; upper surface pale bluish or brownish green, rather 

 dull, sparingly stellate; lower surface more or less densely stellate, pale yellow- 

 ish or brownish; lobes triangular; cup hemispheric, 8-10 mm. in diameter; 

 acorns 10-13 mm. long. HOLLY OAK. Hills: N.M. Colo. Utah Ariz.; 

 n Mex. Son. Mr-My. 



13. Q. undulata Torr. A shrub 1-3 m. high; young twigs sparingly stel- 

 late-pubescent; leaf -blades firm, pale bluish or brownish green and shining above, 

 pale brownish beneath, stellate when young, almost glabrous in age on both 

 sides, or sometimes densely stellate-pubescent beneath; cup hemispheric, 7-10 mm. 

 broad; acorn 10-15 mm. long, 6-7 mm. in diameter. LIVE OAK. Barren hills: 

 Ariz. Colo. Tex. Son. Submont. My. 



14. Q. grisea Liebm. A shrub usually a few meters high, rarely a small 

 tree; younger twigs yellowish and stellate-pubescent; leaves from oval to oblong 

 or sometimes oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, cordate or rounded at the 

 base, usually entire or undulate, sometimes on young shoots dentate, 2-5 cm. 

 long; upper surface pale bluish green, shining; lower surface densely stellate and 

 fulvous; acorns about 15 mm. long. Table-lands: Tex. s Utah 'Ariz. Son 

 Ap-My. 



15. Q. pauciloba Rydb. Tree 4-5 m. high, rarely a shrub; young branches 

 brown, pubescent; leaf-blades broadly oval, ovate, or obovate, 5-8 cm. long, 3-5 

 mm. wide, sinuately 5-7-lobed, pale bluish green above, pale brownish, strongly 

 reticulate, and stellate-pubescent beneath; lobes broadly triangular, spinulose- 

 tipped; cup hemispheric, 12-18 mm. in diameter; acorn sometimes 15 mm. long. 

 Canons: Ariz. s Utah. Son. 



16. Q. Wilcoxii Rydb. A shrub or rarely a small tree 6-9 m. high; young 

 branchlets f ulvous-tomentulose ; leaf-blades usually broadly oval, acute at the 

 base, abruptly short-acuminate, thick and firm, 1-4 cm. long, when young de- 

 ciduously fulvous stellate-tomentulose especially on the lower surface, dull 



