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BOTAKY. 
but rather to be referred to the former, having a similar though smaller leaf, 
(3-5' long,) with 3-4 pairs of rather narrow oblong subequal lobes, opposite 
or alternate, obtuse and subentire, with no tendency toward the fewer 
rounded divergent unequal lobes that characterize the leaf of steMata, yet 
with much of its yellowish downy pubescence, only occasionally becoming 
nearly glabrous ; it has also the glabrous anther of alha, (though otherwise 
described by De Candolle,) the longer peduncle, the same proportioned 
shallower cup, 4-7" (usually 5") broad and 3" deep, with convex inflated 
scales ; the acorn is considerably smaller than that of alha^ usually 9" long 
and b" in diameter, sometimes much shorter and scarcely exserted from the 
cup. Usually low ami scrubby, covering the foot-hills, but at times attain- 
ing 1-1 J° in diameter and 20° in height, with the bark and all the habit of 
Q. idhn. 515 Hall & Harbour, referred to Q. Douglasii, Var. Nova Mexicana, 
is the same. Not seen west of the Wahsatch, but extending east to Colo- 
rado and south to lariludc 38° ; 5-7,000 feet altitude. (1,086.) 
Castanopsis^ ciiiivsopiiYLLA, A. DC. Prodr. 16. 2.109. {Castanea, 
Hook.) Leaves 4-5' long, evergreen, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, acute 
at l)asc, cut in", coriaceous, deep-green and glabrous above, the younger ones 
especially covered beneath with irohhMi-ycllow scales; stipules ovate-lance- 
olate, caducous ; aments densely ll()^^•cl■ed, half shorter than the leaves ; styles 
3, erect and subdivergent, glabrous, linear; fruit crowded, densely prickly.— 
A tree of Oregon and California, becoming 60-100° high, and 1-3° in diam- 
eter. Var. MINOR, ]3enth. A shrub 2-6° high, with smaller leaves, 1^2^' 
long, 6-9" wide, often ()])tiiso, and acute or obtuse at base, on petioles 3 6" 
in length. Stipules subpersistent, 1" long; aments pubescent, with the 
small lanceolate bracts sometimes hidden between the fascicles; spikes 
androgynous, the fertile flowers surrounded by broad ovate bracts and scales; 
calyx pubescent except at l)ase, lobes ovate, doubly serrate ; stamens often 
abortive; scales of the tinally dehiscent involucre becoming elongated (some- 
' CASTANOPSIS, Spach. Sterile flowe-rs fasoided, sHrroTn^n^^Tii^^T;;^^ 
involucre and .-I .n.In.l.l . a. tila.inons f... ,„.;i,.,s : involu. nA, , ..l t ^ t wlu ~7 
prickle« Kvowin;: tanUly fn,,., th. s.al,.. .an.ly ...vst.d . i,,, s„,h.o„u , , I. ^ ^^T'f^ ^"^^"'^ 
