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QUERCUS MOREHUS, Kellogg. 



Bibliography. 



QuERCUS MoREHUS, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad, ii, 36 (1863). 



, A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi% 79 (1864). 



QuERCUS AGRIFOLIA, Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad, iii, 229 (1866), in part. 

 QuERCUS WiSLizENi, Eiigelm., in Bot. Calif, ii, 98 (1880), in part. 



, Sargent, U. S. Forestry Rep. 149 (1884), in part. 



, Curran, in Bull. Calif. Acad, i, 146 (1885). 



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Description. A small tree, thirty feet high, with wide-spread straggling branches ; 

 leaves somewhat coriaceous, long-petioled, three or four inches long, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acutish at base, coarsely sinuate-toothed, the teeth subulate from a broad base : fructifica- 

 tion biennial : acorns solitary on peduncles a half-inch long, or less ; cup hemispherical, 

 its scales ovate, ciliate below, glabrous ; nut oblong, obtuse, two-thirds exserted. 



Habitat. In the Coast Range from Lake County southward, and also along the foot- 

 hills of the Sierra Nevada. Apparently nowhere common. 



Remarks. The suggestion that this is a hybrid between Q. Wislizeni and Q. Kel- 

 loggii needs confirmation. The former is evergreen, the latter deciduous, and the present 

 species is not intermediate between the two in any point of leaf-texture or duration. It 

 might rather be considered a variety of Q. Kelloggii than hybrid between that and any 

 evergreen oak. It is only a shrub or small tree; hence of little or no economic value. 



Of the origin of the specific name of this oak, in the mind of Dr. Kellogg, an account 

 has lately been published.' Q. Morehus is, no doubt, somewhat of a barbarism; but, to 

 either the eye or the ear it is an agreeable name contrasted with any one of the following, 

 made by other and more learned authors: Q. Baloot; Q. Look; Q. Tchihatcheffii ; Q. 

 Tlapuxahuensis. 



' Pittonia, i, 149. 



