QUERCUS FAGACEZ 611 
bark: branchlets short, stout, very leafy, tomentose-pubescent: leaves 
broadly obovate: veinlets only gradually divergent from the midrib and 
directing the lobes somewhat digitately toward the apex of the leaf which 
is broadest far above the middle: acorns ovate, less than an inch long, well 
inserted n° a hemispherical scaly cup. On Islands in Puget Sound and 
northward. 
Q. €rstediana R.{Br. Campst. |. c. A shrub 2-6 feet high, with pu- 
bescent branchlets:-leaves 3-5 inches long, usually deeply pinnatifid, 
sometimes merely sinuate; lobes obtuse or acutish, entire or toothed : sta- 
minate aments rather few-flowered, erect: acorns rarely subsessile, usually 
several, crowded near the summit of a peduncle an inch long or more; cup 
shallow,*strongly tuberculate: nut oval, obtuse, an inch long. On dry 
mountain sides at middle or high elevations, Southern Oregon to 
California. 
++ ++ Leaves persistent through winter and mostly until the appear- 
ance of new leaves for the next seasun. 
Q. Sadleriana R. Br. Campst. 1. c. A shrub4-6 feet high with rather 
dark-colored bark and glabrous branchlets: buds oblong densely silky: 
stipules filiform, densely silky: leaves oblong to obovate, not'lobed, serrate, 
1-3 inches long, on petioles 2-6 lines long. dark green above, at length be- 
coming whitish and strongly reticulated beneath: aments densely flowered 
erect or spreading 1-4 inches long: bracts silky, sepals ovate: stamens about 
8: acorns sessile or nearly so; cup shallow, tuberculate, 5-6 lines broad: 
nut oblong, obtuse, about 8 lines long. In moist places on top of the coast 
mountains along the old Wimer road, also on top of the Siskiyou Mountains 
near the Happy Camp trail. 
+ + Acorns maturing the second season, the nuts often pubescent 
within. : 
Q. chrysolepis Leibm. in Benth. Pl."Hartw. 336. As represented in 
our region a small tree or low shrub 2-30 feet high, farther south a large 
tree, with ashy-gray flaky bark and glabrous branchlets: leaves oblong- 
lanceolate entire or sharply dentate, acute, cuspidate obtuse or subcordate 
at base, 1-3 inches long, at first fulvous-tomentose beneath, aftera year 
glabrate and bluish or whitish, on petioles about 3 lines long: aments some- 
times branched, tomentose, soon glabrate: calyx lobes 5-7, broadly ovate, 
acute glabrous, ciliate: anthers about 10, Sopp aus cuspidate: pistillate 
flowers sessile, or_rarely in spikes: cups covered with small triangular ap- 
pressed scales, more or less hidden in the dense yellow or fulvous tomen - 
tum, very variable in shape and size, 4-12 lines wide, hemispherical and 
rather thin to flat saucer-shaped and very thick with a broad thick rim: 
nut oval, obtuse 6-18 lines long, and half as thick. Along streams, South- 
ern Oregon to California. 
Q. vaccinifolia Kellogg Proc. Am. Acad i, 96. A low shrub 1-4 feet 
high, densely branched and very leafy : leaves ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 
entire or with a few sharp teeth on one or both margins acute and very 
shortly or not at all cuspidate, 6-18 lines long, on petioles 4-6 lines long 
yellowish green and glabrous on the upper side, white or whitish with a 
dense scurf beneath, obtuse or subcordate at base: stipules 4-6 lines long 
linear-lanceolate somewhat silky : aments glabrous: ca'yx-lobes 5-7, broadly 
ovate: anthers about 8, not cuspidate: pistillate flowers sessile or in spikes: 
cups covered with small appressed scales not tomentose: nuts 8-12 lines 
jong “Common on dry rocky hillsides Southeastern Oregon and adjacent 
alifornia. 
* * Anthers usually 4 or 5: stigmas on long spreading or recurved 
styles: abortive ovules borne at the top of the seed. 
Q. Kelloggii Newberry Pac. R. Rep. vi, 28. fig. 6, A middle-sized 
