* Evergreen White Oaks continued from page 43. 



Plate XXV. 



QUERCUS PALMERI, Engelmann. 



Bibliography. 



QuERCUS Palmeri, Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 388 and 393 (1876; as a 



subspecies); Bot. Calif, ii. 97 (Oct. 1879; as a species). 

 QuERCUS DuNNii, Kellogg, Pacif Rural Press, (June 7, 1879). 



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



, Greene, West Am. Oaks, 38, 46 (1889). 



Description. A clustered shrub, sometimes twelve or fifteen feet high, with stout 

 rigid divaricate branches ; growing branchlets and lower face of leaves invested with a yel- 

 lowish deciduous tomentum; branchlets of former years glabrous, smooth, ashy gray : leaves 

 from three-fourths to one and a fourth inches long, coriaceous, very pallid, oval, truncate 

 or slightly rounded at base, abruptly acute at apex, undulate, coarsely and irregularly 

 spinose-toothed, or some of the smallest entire : staminate flowers light cream-color in 

 very dense and greatly elongated aments (four or five inches long): fructification biennial : 

 acorns subsessile ; cup turbinate, six to nine lines wide, the scales concealed by fulvous 

 tomentum, the margin involute and uneven ; nut an inch long, ovate, acute, tomentose at 

 apex and within. 



Habitat. Mountains of the southern part of San Diego County, California, and 

 southward upon the peninsula, no one knows how far. The drawing was made from 

 specimens brought by Mr. Dunn, the original discoverer of the species, from eighty miles 

 below the United States boundary, and were collected in September, 1888. 



Remarks. This very distinct and peculiar oak, although bearing most likeness in 

 foliage and habit to Q. chrysolepis, has no little affinity for Q. densifiora^ as its remarkable 

 chestnut-like inflorescence clearly indicates. 



It is to be noted that, in the Botany of the California Survey, Dr. Engelmann quoted 

 himself as having published it as Q. chtysolepis, var. Palmeri. This quotation of himself 

 is wrong. And the editors of Dr. Engelmann's Collected Works, in a foot note to page 



