12 WEST AMERICAN OAKvS. 



higher mountains, according to Dr. Kellogg, nor yet upon the plains ; but confined to the 

 lower and middle elevations of the mountains, and known by the common name pf Moun- 

 tain White Oak. 



Remarks. The species is most readily distinguished from the following, to which it 

 is nevertheless very closely allied, by its tomentose winter leaf-buds, its short acorns, and 

 the absence of the long, wand-like, sterile branchlets which give to Q. lobata its peculiar 

 drooping or weeping-willow-like aspect. It is a valuable timber tree, the wood being little 

 inferior to that of the White Oak of the Atlantic side of the continent, and being employed 

 for the same purposes. 



