WHITE OAK SEI^IES. 



Bark gray, or at least light-colored ; wood nearly white, fine-grained ; foliage of a light 

 green, often glaucous ; lobes of leaves in the deciduous species rounded ; 

 abortive ovules at or near the base of the seed. 



* Deciduous Species. 



Plate VII. 



QUERCUS GARRYANA, Douglas. 



Bibliography. 



QuERCUS Garryana, Dougl., in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 159 (1840). 



, Hooker & Arnott, Hot. Beech. 391 (1841). 



, Nuttall, N. Am. Sylv. i, i, t. i (1842). 



QuERCUS Ne^i, Liebra., in Dansk. Vidensk. Forhandl. 173 (1854). 

 QuERCus Garryana, Newb., Pac. R. Rep. vi, 89 (1857). 



, A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi', 24 (1864). 



, Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad, iii, 229 (1866). 



, Engelm., Trans. St. Louis Acad, iii, 389 (1876); Bot. Calif, ii, 95 (1880). 



, Kellogg, Forest Trees of Calif. 72 (1882). 



, Sargent, U. S. Forestry Rep. 138 (1884), in part. 



Description. From fifty to one hundred feet high, with spreading branches and 

 loose, open head ; trunk four to eight feet thick, clothed with a very light, gray bark which 

 is finely tesselated and not very thick ; branchlets thick, rigid, tomentose-pubescent ; win- 

 ter buds large, densely tomentose : leaves four to six inches long, on petioles of a half 

 inch or more, obovatc in outline, coarsely lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes broad, usually 

 obtuse, entire or toothed, lower face pubescent and strongly net-veined : fructification an- 

 nual: acorns nearly or quite sessile; cup small and shallow, its scales lanceolate, some- 

 what pubescent, flat or tuberculate-thickened at base; nut oval, obtuse, about an inch long. 



Habitat. From the hills of Sonoma County at the north end of San Francisco Bay, 

 to Puget's Sound ; less common in the interior than toward the coast, and nowhere in the 



