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Small evergreen tree with slender tomentulose twigs and minute round red 

 velvety buds; leaves small (1 cm. wide, 3 to 5 cm. long), minutely canescent 

 beneath, nari'owly oblong-lanceolate, mucrouately acute, rounded at base, 

 entire or with 1 or 2 asymmetric teeth, the short petiole tomentulose; fruit 

 long-peduncled ; acorn fusiform-oblong, 10 mm. in diameter, 20 to 25 mm. long, 

 less than one-third included, the turbinate cup with acute appressed scales in 

 somewhat evident vertical rows. 



This and Q. oleoides are probably the specie.s* which have been reported from 

 Mexico as Q. virginAwna Mill. (Q. virens Ait.). The following are some of the 

 vernacular names reported: " Maculi " (Nuevo Le6n, Veracruz); " maquili- 

 huatl " (Veracruz); " texmole " ; " roble " ; " roble serrano " ; " palo duro"; 

 " tezmolli " ; " encina." 



55. Quercus brandegei Goldman, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16:321.1916. 

 Baja California ; type locality, Rancho El Parafso, near El Triunfo. 

 Moderately large evergreen tree with slender tomentulose twigs and minute 



round brown velvety buds; leaves small (scarcely 2 cm. wide and 3 to 6 cm. 

 long), densely hoary beneath, elliptic-oblong, mucronately acute, rounded or 

 acute at base, entire or with a few irregular low pungent teeth, the short 

 petiole canescent; fruit rather long-peduncled; acorn conical, about 8 mm. 

 in diameter and 15 mm. long, fully half included, the goblet-shaped cup with 

 acute appressed scales. 



56. Quercus tomentella Eiigelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 3: 393. 1877. 

 Guadalupe Island, Baja California. 



Moderate-sized evergreen tree with rather stout short-pilose twigs and tomen- 

 tulose buds as much as 7 mm. in diameter and 12 mm. long; leaves moderate 

 (4 to 7 cm. wide, 7 to 12 cm. long), coriaceous, granular on the midrib above, 

 the whitened lower surface more or less persistently fleecy, elliptic-ovate, acute 

 or subacuminate, subcordate, toothed, with .short villous petiole; acorn ovoid 

 or elongate, sometimes 30 mm. in diameter and 35 mm. long, scarcely ever half 

 included, the thick half-round cup with its scales embedded in tomentum ; wood 

 hard, close-grained, yellowish brown, its specific gravity about 0.72. 



57. Quercus palmeri Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 3: 393. 1877. 

 Quercus dunnii Kellogg, Pacif. Rural Press, .Tune 7. 1879. 



Quercus chrysolepis pahneri Kngelm. in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 97. 1880. 



Northern Baja California. Also in San Diego County, California, the type 

 locality. 



Evergreen shrub with slender, minutely scurfy twigs; leaves small (2 cm. 

 wide, 3 cm. long), coriaceous, glabi-ate, rounded, acute, cordate, cri-sped or 

 folded, typically coarsely and pungently dentate ; acorn conic-oblong, 15 mm. in 

 diameter, 25 to 30 mm. long, the subturbinate undulate-margined cup very 

 fulvous-woolly. 



58. Quercus emoryi ' Torr. in Emory, Notes Mil. Recon. 151. 1848. 

 Quercus hastata Liebm. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1854: 171. 1854. 

 Chihuahua and Sonora. Texas to Arizona; type from Texas. 



Small deciduous tree with slender glabrescent red twigs and glossy brown 

 glabrate buds sometimes 3 mm. in diameter and 8 mm. long; leaves small (1 to 



' William H. Emory (1811-1887), was a member of the commission for estab- 

 lishing the boundary between the United States and Mexico. He was the 

 author of " Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth in Mis- 

 souri to San Diego in California" (1848), and of the "Report of the United 

 States and Mexican Boundary Conunission " (1857). 



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