BEECH FAMILY 



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12. Quercus alvordiana Eastw. 

 Alvord's Oak. Fig. 1263. 



Quercus alrordiana Eastw. Ilandb. Trees Calif. 48. 

 pi. 27, fig. 4. 1905. 



Shrub 2-3 m. high, with stiff brittle almost 

 divaricate branches, young twigs grayish 

 tomentose. Leaves evergreen, broadly oval to 

 oblong. 15-40 mm. long, entire or commonly 

 spinulose dentate, grayish green above and 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent, paler and stellate- 

 tomentose beneath, prominently reticulate, 

 thick, coriaceous and often undulate ; ctips 

 shallow, 10-15 mm. broad, the scales grayish 

 tomentose somew^hat tuberculate ; nut slender 

 acute. 20-30 mm. long. 



Dry interior hills or desert slopes. Upper Sonoran 

 Zone; south Coast Ranges (San Carlos Range) to 

 northern Lower California. Referred in the Bot. 

 Calif, to Querns nndnlata pungcns Engelm. Type 

 locality: San Emigdo Canon, Kern County, California. 



14. Quercus tomentella 



Engelm. Island Oak. 



Fig. 1265. 



Quercus touieiitcUa Engelm. Trans. St. Louis 

 Acad. 3: 393. 1877. 



A small round-topped tree. 8-12 m. 

 high, with a trunk 3-6 dm. in diameter ; 

 young twigs hoary tomentose becoming 

 "brown; bark thin, reddish brown, cov- 

 ered with loosely appressed scales. 

 Leaves persisting until the third year, 

 5-10 cm. long, oblong lanceolate, 

 usually acute at the apex, rounded or 

 wedge-shaped at base, crenate-dentate 

 with callous-tipped teeth or sometimes 

 entire, stellate-pubescent beneath ; 

 acorns maturing the second autumn ; 

 cup shallow, pubescent within, . its 

 scales ovate, acute, more or less hidden 

 in the thick hoary tomentum ; nut 

 ovate, 15-20 mm. long. 



Peculiar to the islands ofT the coast of 

 southern California and Lower California, 

 where it has been found on Santa Cruz, 

 Santa Rosa, Santa Catalina, San Clemente 

 and Guadaloupe. Type locality: Guadaloupe 

 Island. 



13. Quercus sadleriana R. Br. 

 Deer or Sadler's Oak. Fig. 1264. 



Quercus sadleriana R. Br. Campst. Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. IV. 7: 249. 1871. 



Low shrub, 0.5-2.5 m. high branch- 

 ing from the base, j-oung twigs glabrous 

 or nearly so. Leaves evergreen, falling in 

 the summer after the appearance of the 

 new leaves, oblongTOvate to broadly 

 ovate, 5-14 cm. long, coarsely serrate,' 

 prominently pinnate-veined glabrous or 

 nearly so; stipules 10-15 mm. long, ob- 

 lanceolate, densely silky ; acorns solitary 

 or several crowded in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, maturing the first autumn ; 

 cup cup-shaped, thin, the scales thin, 

 scarcely tuberculate; nut ovate, 15-20 

 mm. long. 



Dry slopes and ridges, at high altitudes, 

 Canadian Zone; Josephine and Curry Coun- 

 ties, Oregon, south through the Siskiyou and 

 Klamath Mountains to Trinity County. Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: Crescent City trail be- 

 tween Sailors' Diggings, Oregon, and Smith 

 Creek, California. 



