VALUE OF OAK LEAVES FOR FORAGE. 9 



This oak is seldom found south of San Francisco Bay, and reaches its 

 greatest abundance north of Clear Lake, on the dry eastern slopes of the 

 Coast Ranges bordering on the Sacramento Valley, and extending to 

 Mount Shasta. 



The forage value of the variety is apparently the same as that of the 

 type of the species. 





PLATE V. QUEKCUS WISLIZENI. (CAJJON LIVE OAK.) 



CAftON LIVE OAK (Quercus wislizeni). 



The Canon Live Oak when found in the canons is a tree usually 20 

 to 40 feet high, but when it passes into the chaparral it is never higher 

 than 8 feet. Here it is an intricately branched shrub with a rounded 

 top. The bark on old trees is rough and thick, but on shrubs it is 

 smooth. The leaves are usually oblong-lanceolate, entire, serrate or 

 dentate, and are lustrous and dark green in color. They are about 1^ 

 inches long and f of an inch wide. The nuts ripen in the second season, 



