VALUE OF OAK LEAVES FOR FORAGE. 5 



young trees and shrubs the leaves are inclined to become spinescent. 

 The acorns, borne in shallow cups, are oval to ovate- acute, and are 

 about 1 to 1^ inches long. 



In altitude, this oak is limited to the low foothills and dry valleys 

 where the soil is hard and rocky, and never ranges upward to the higher 

 slopes and valleys. It is found most abundantly in the dry foothills of 



PLATE I. QUERCUS DOUGLAS1I. (BLUE OAK.) 



the inner Coast Ranges, but extends from Mendocino County and the 

 upper Sacramento Valley through the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada 

 to Tejon Pass, in Kern County, from whence stunted individuals extend 

 to the margin of the Mojave Desert. In the southern Coast Ranges it 

 reaches its maximum height of fully 30 feet. 



