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able conditions are larger. The gray bark is made up of thin 
plates or flakes, with shallow intervening fissures. The leaves 
are very irregular, some nearly entire, while others are promi- 
nently lobed. They are rather small, 1 to 3 inches long, % to 
2% inches wide. The cup of the acorn is shallow, and the 
acorn itself is somewhat variable in shape. While perhaps 
most commonly shaped like the ones illustrated in figure 1, 
they may be slender with a pointed apex. 
Figure 1. Quercus Douglasii 
The tree is found in California only, its northern limit 
being about the same as that of Q. /obata, namely, the hills bor- 
dering the upper end of the Sacramento valley, but in the south 
it extends to the southern borders of the state. The most con- 
genial conditions for growth are apparently in Monterey county, 
