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SILVA OF NOB TIT AMEBIC A. 



CUPULIEERiE 



peduncle are clothed with hoary tomentum, and the styles, often more than thr 



d 



The fruit, which rii^ens 



the autumn of the second 



season, is 



in number, are 

 sessile, short- 



ped 



or 



nally spicate ; the nut is slender, oblong-oval, abruptly 



owed at the base 



gradually narrowed to the pointed pilose apex, from three quarters of an 

 lonsr, about a third of an inch wide, and Hofht chestnut-brown and often str 



ch to an inch and a half 

 5. with a thin hard shell 



o 



Hned with a scanty coat of pale tomentum ; the cup is thin, turbinate, sometimes tubular, and from half 



jen and puberulous within, and 



an 



ch to an inch deep, or rarely cup-shaped and shallow, light gi 



ered by oblong-lanceolate light b 



closely imbricated scales which are thin or sometimes toward 



the base of the cup are thickened and rounded on the back, and are 

 especially above the middle, and frequently ciliate on the 



lly pubescent or puberulous 



Q 



w. 



is a distinct and handsome tree, and is distributed from the lower slopes of 



Mt. Shasta southward through the coast reo^ion of California to the Santa Lucia Mountains and to Santa 

 Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands, and along the foothills and lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada as far south 



Tejon Pass ; in shrubby forms 



in caiions on the desert slop 



San Jacinto/ and Cuyamaca Mountains, and finds its most 



home 



5 of the San Bernardino, 

 Mt. San Pedro Martir in 



Lower Califo 



Although nowhere 



common, Qiiercus Wislizeni is most abundant and grows 



some of the valleys of the coast region of central Califo 



the sea and on the footh 



of the Sierra Nevada 



th Quercus diim 



the 



canons 



of 



desert slopes of the mountains of southern Califo 



nia at some distance from 



it is the common Oak in 



Near the coast and on the 



islands it is small and often shrubby. 



Individual trees ^ first noticed by Dr. Albert Kellogg^ in Lake County, California, are believed to be 



hybrids between this species and the deciduous-leaved Quercus 



itoDitca. 



1 In Snow Creek Canon, opening into the desert at the northern necticut, and passed his boyhood on his father's farm in that town- 



base of Mt. San Jacinto, are many small bushy trees of Quercus In early youth, after receiving a common-school education, he began 



Wislizeni, bearing fruit with shallow cup-shaped cups (Plate ccccvi- the study of medicine with a physician in Middletown, Connecticut, 



f . 6), a form that I have not elsewhere seen. 



2 Brandegee, Zot'^ iv. 209. 



* Quercus Wislizeni X Californica. 



Quercus Morehus, Kellogg, Pivc. CaL Acad, ii. 3G (1863). 



but delicacy of the lungs interfered with his studies and he went to 

 Charleston, South Carolina, where he entered the Medical College. 

 He received his medical degree, however, in Lexington, Kentucky, 

 and then practiced his profession during several years in different 



Greene, West Am. Oaks, 3, 79, t. 2 ; Man. Bot, Bay Region^ parts of Kentucky, Georgia, and Alabama. His early taste for 



303. — Sargent, Garden and Forest, ii. 471. 



natural history was no doubt confirmed by a chance meeting with 



Quercus Wislizeni X Kelloggii, Mary K. Curran, Bull, CaL Audubon, whose companion he became in a long journey through 



Acad, i. 146 (1885). 



the Southwest, which eventually brought him to San Antonio, 



This is a small tree (Plate ccccvii.) rarely more than thirty feet in Texas, in 1845. He was in New England again when gold was dis- 



height, with wide-spreading branches, dark generally smooth bark, covered in California, and joining a party of miners, reached the 



and large ovate acute pubescent buds. The leaves are oblong, broad Pacific coast in August, 1849, having made the voyage from New 



and rounded or cordate at the base, acute at the apex, remotely and York in a small schooner. After passing three or four years in the 



coarsely sinuate-lobed with broad subulate and often toothed lobes, mining districts, Dr. Kellogg established himself in San Francisco, 



dark green and glabrous on the upper and yellow-green and gla- which was his home during the remainder of his life. In 1854 he 



brous or stellate-pubescent on the lower surface, from two to four was one of the seven founders of the California Academy of Sci- 



inches long and from one to nearly two inches broad ; and, borne ences, in which he was always deeply interested, and which he 



on slender glabrous or pubescent petioles sometimes an inch in faithfully served until his death as curator of the botanical depart- 



length, they fall during the winter or early in the spring with the ment. As a botanical collector Dr. Kellogg made many journeys 



appearance of the new growth. The fruit, which ripens at the end in his adopted state, and in 1867, being appointed surgeon and nat- 



of the second season, is sessile or produced on a short stout pedun- uralist of the United States Coast Survey, he visited Alaska, where 



cle, and is usually solitary ; the nut is from an inch to an inch and he made an important collection of plants. Never claiming to be 



a half in length, oblong-oval, and rather full at the acute apex ; the a scientific botanist. Dr. Kellogg was an ardent and devoted lover 



cup, which incloses two thirds of the nut or sometimes only its base, of nature. Particularly interested in trees, he was the author of 



is deep or shallow, cup-shaped, and covered by thin light brown a work on the forest trees of California which contains picturesque 



scarious glabrous or puberulous oblong-ovate scales rounded or accounts of many of the important inhabitants of the Pacific for- 



acute at the apex. 



ests ; and his drawings of western Oaks were published after his 



Quercus Morehus has also been found near Newcastle in Placer death by Professor Edward L. Greene in the first part of his West 

 County, at Folsom in Sacramento County, on Mt. Tamalpais north American Oaks. 



of the Golden Gate, and on the hills near Berkeley. 

 4 Albert Kellogg (1813-1887) was born at New 



Kelloggia, a monotypic genus of the Sierra Nevada dedicated to 

 him by Torrey, will preserve among botanists the memory of a 



