Plate VIII. 



QUERCUS LOBATA, Nee. 



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QuERCUS LYRATA, Sprang., Syst. Veg. iii, 864 (1826), in part. 

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, Behr, Fl. San Francisco 269 (1888). 



Description. A large and stately tree from fifty to one hundred feet in height, with 

 widely spreading, often somewhat drooping branches ; trunk from four to eight feet thick, 

 with rather dark gray bark; branchlets glabrous, elongated and rather slender, the later 

 and sterile ones commonly several feet long and pendent : leaves obovate in outline, deeply 

 lobed, the lobes numerous and small, obtuse or retuse, sometimes toothed: fructification 

 annual : acorns subsessile; nut long-conical, commonly two inches long, and rather narrow 

 and sharp pointed; cup deeply hemispherical, strongly tuberculate. 



Habitat. Throughout California, probably not passing beyond its borders either 

 north or south ; most common in the great central valley and not ascending the higher or 

 even middle elevations of any mountain range. It is the conspicuous oak of all the inland 

 plains, everywhere noticeable on account of its size and beauty, and is plentiful in the 

 Napa, Sacramento and other valleys of the middle parts of the State. 



