1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 155 



18. FAGACEAE (Beech Family) 



Both staminate and pistillate flowers in erect, often branching catkins; fruit 

 a spiny bur , 1. Castanopsis 



Staminate flowers in pendulous catkins; pistillate flowers sessile in an involu- 

 crate-like cup of ultimately woody scales; fruit an acorn 2. Quercus 



1. CASTANOPSIS 



1. Castanopsis sempervirens Dudley, in Merriam, Biol. Surv. Mt. 

 Shasta, p. 142. 1899. 

 Castanea sempervirens Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., vol. 1, p. 71. 1855. 



Type locality. — "From the vicinitj^ of Mariposa." 



Ramge. — Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada to the mountains of 

 southern California. Southern Oregon. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian, occasionally near to timber line. 



Specimens examined. — Near timber line on south side of Mt. Tallac, 

 Tahoe, C. H. Merriam in 1898 ; Glen Alpine, 6,800 feet, McGregor 174 ; 

 Angora Peak, Tahoe, 8,300 feet. Smiley 22; Castle Peak, east slope 

 in slide rock, 8,300 feet, Smiley 472; Silver Lake, Amador County, 

 8,000 feet, Hansen 790; trail to Cloud's Rest, Yosemite, 7,900 feet. 

 Smiley 499 ; Coyote Creek, Tulare County, Culbertson (B 4284) ; 

 big crag of Alta Peak, Dudley 1357 ; Kaiser Peak, Fresno County, 

 9,000 feet, Smiley 623; lower side Mt. Kaweah, 12,500 feet, Dudley 

 2113 ; rocky slopes of Little Kern River, 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 5114. 



2. QUERCUS 



1. Quercus vaccinifolia Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad, vol. 1, p. 96. 



1855. 



Q. chrysolepis var. vaccinifolia Engelm., Trans. St. Louis Acad., vol. 3, 

 p. 393. 1877. Bot. Calif., vol. 2, p. 97. 1880. 



Type locality. — "Trinity, Scott and Siskiyou Mountains." 



Range. — Mountains of Northwest California, Mt. Shasta and the 

 Sierra Nevada south to the Kings River region. 



Zone. — Canadian mainly. 



Specimens examined. — Glen Alpine, Tahoe, W. W. Price, July, 

 1898 ; Mt. Tallac, trail at 8,500 feet, Abrams 4826 ; between Tahoe and 

 Lake Lucile, 7-8,000 feet. Miss K. A. Chandler, September, 1901; 

 Grass Lake, McGregor 10 ; about Summit Station, Donner Pass, Heller 

 6980; Silver Lake, Amador County, 8,000 feet, Hansen 204; Plumas 

 County, Mrs. Austin in 1878; near Summit Valley, 8,000 feet. 



