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Forma hansenii Jepson n. form. (Fig. 65e.) Low tree; leaves ovate, acute, 

 % to 2y 2 inches long, the nerves below chiefly straight, regular and parallel; 

 nut cylindric, about 10 lines long, 3 or 4 lines in diameter, set in a thick cup 

 of greater diameter. (Arbor parva; folia ovata acuta 1% ad 2 l /2 poll, longa; 

 nervi subtus plerumque recti, regulares parallelique ; glans cylindrica circa 

 10 lin. longa, 3 vel 4 lin. in diametro, posita in crassa cupula maioris diametri). 

 Pine Grove, Amador Co., 2,300 feet, Geo. Hansen, 1905. 



Forma nana Jepson n. form. (Fig. 65f.) Low compactly branched shrub; 

 leaves oblong or ovate, acute, 1 to I 1 /-? inches long; cup shallow, 7 or 8 lines 



FIG. 65. QUERCUS CHBYSOLEPIS Liebm. a, Entire leaf; 6, toothed leaf; g, small toothed 

 leaf typical of stump sprouts; c, acorn with turban-like cup. d, Forma GRAXDIS 

 Jepson, acorn. e, Forma HANSENII Jepson, aeorn. f, Forma NANA Jepson, leaf, 

 nat. size. 



broad; nut thick, ovate, blunt, % to 1 inch long. (Frutex humilis dense 

 ramosus; folia oblonga vel ovata, acuta, 1 ad 1% poll, longa; cupula brevis 

 7 vel 8 lin. lata; glans crassa ovata obtusa, % ad 1 poll, longa). Mt. St. Helena 

 summit, AV.L.J. 



Eefs. QUERCUS CHRYSOLEPIS Liebmann, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 1854, p. 173, 

 type from mountains near Carmel, Hartweg ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 143 (1901). Q. 

 oblongifolia E. Br. Campst, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 7, p. 252 (1871), not Engel- 

 mann, teste W.L.J. While none of Eobert Brown's oak specimens were found by the writer 

 either at Edinburgh or Kew herbaria, Brown ticketed a Jeffrey specimen of Q. chrysolepis 

 at Edinburgh as ' ' oblongifolia Torr. ' ' 



10. Q. vaccinifolia Kell. HUCKLEBERRY OAK. Shrub, prostrate or erect 

 and 2 to 6 feet high, the slender pliable branchlets in tufts at top of stems, 

 simulating the habit of a huckleberry; leaves oblong-ovate, mostly obtusish 



