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with various modifying adjectives. The following names also are reported 

 for species not identified: "Alcomoque " (Oaxaca, Michoacan ; this is properly 

 the name for the Spanish cork oak); " cucharitas," " peinecillo " (Oaxaca, 

 Reko) ; " encina memelita " ; " charrasquillo " (Durange, Patoni; shrubby 

 species) ; " encinilla " (Durango. Patoni; shrub. 40 cm. high or less). 



The usual Nahuatl word for oak is written " ahuatl." " ahoatl," and " aoatl " ; 

 the following variants are reported : "Ahoaquahuitl." " ahuaquahuitl," or " aua- 

 quauitl " (oak-tree); " ahuatetz," " auatetz," " ahuatetzmolli," " auatetzmulli " 

 (live oak); " ahuacoztic " (yellow-oak); " ahuatzin pitzahuac " (narrow-leaf 

 oak); "texmole" (MichoacS,n) ; " ahuatezon " (Morelos, Mexico); "ahuato- 

 matl " (acorn, literally "oak-tomato"; sometimes corrupted as " aguatomate " ) 

 Geographic names relating to oak trees are : Ahuatepec, " oak-hill " ; Ahuachi- 

 chilpa, " in the red oaks" ; Ahuatlan, "near the oaks." 



Reko gives the following Zapotec names used in Oaxaca : " Yaga-yoo." 

 " yaga-reche." " yaga-xoo," " yaga-cino," " yaga-zache." Belmar lists the 

 following Mixe names: " Kook " (acorn); " sho " ; " shokiup " ; " shotionit " 

 (acorn). Otomi names, according to Buelna, are " mettza " and " ndeza " 

 (acom). Gonzalez gives the Zoque name as " camay-cuy." A name reported 

 by Ramirez from MichoacSn, probably Tarascan, is " tarecuen." 



I. Fruit (not known in nos. 6, 7, 11. 15, 21, 26, 28, 34, 39) maturing the first 

 season ; shell of acom not woolly within, the abortive ovules at or near 

 its base ; stigmas short and broad, nearly sessile : leaves not aristate, 

 but sometimes with tip and teeth puugently mucronate. LErcoBALAXUs. 

 A. Leaves, or many of them, serrate, never very small. 

 B. Acorn (so far as known) large or very large (20 to 70 mm. In diameter). 

 Leaves large. 



Acorn depressed-globose 1. Q. insignis. 



Acom short-conical 2. Q. strombocarpa. 



Acom elongate. Teeth of leaf mostly larger. 



Acom very large (40 mm. broad and 60 mm. long). Scales short. 



in rings 3. Q. cyclobalanoides. 



Acorn distinctly smaller (80 mm. broad and 50 mm. longK 



4. Q. excelsa. 



Acorn ovoid 5. Q. galeottii. 



Acorn unknown. Leaves rather blunt-toothed. 



Leaves distinctly short-petioled 6. Q. pinalensis. 



Leaves nearly sessile 7. Q. cbinantlensis. 



Leaves moderate (scarcely 3 cm. wide and 10 cm. long), sharply serrate. 



8. Q. leiopliylla, 

 BB. Acorn unknown. Leaves polymorphous on the same twig. 



41. Q. diversifolia. 

 BBB. Acorn moderate (scarcely 15 mm. in diameter). Leaves moderate, 

 nearly all toothed. 



Leaves finely venulose-reticulate on both faces 9. Q. lancifolia. 



Leaves heavily reticulate beneath, rugulose above. 10. Q. g'labrescens. 

 AA. Leaves, or many of them, crenate or shallowly round-lobed, never very 

 small. Fruit never very large. 

 Leaves blue-green, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, coriaceous, not rugose. 



Leaves elliptic or oblong, low-crenate 11. Q. glaucoides. 



Leaves obovate, more deeply crenate 12. Q. glaucophylla. 



Leaves green, or else rugose or not coriaceous. 



C. Leaves glabrate or somewhat thinly puberulent. 



D. Leaves oblanceolate-ovate. Fruit unkown 1-5. Q. nudinervis. 



