Species of Oaks from North-west America, 251 



appearance, suddenly constricted and terminating in a sharp 

 membranous point, the lower scales largest, upper much 

 smaller, closely aggregated and indistinct, covered with a 

 dense white pubescence ; depth 1^ inch, breadth | inch, 

 length of peduncle ^ inch. Flowers unknown. Maturation 

 annual. 



Hah. in " gulches " from 2500^000 feet above the sea, in 

 the Siskiyou Mountains, but chiefly on Canon Creek, in 

 Southern Oregon, lat. 42° 10' N. 



In character this species approaches the group of which 

 Querciis Garryana^ Dougl.*, is the type, but differs entirely 

 in the character of the cup, the size and lobation of the leaves, 

 and in its being always a shrub. Like Q. Garryana^ it pre- 

 fers prairies and low lands ; but the locality where I have 

 seen it most plentiful Avas on spurs of the mountains, at 

 elevations of 2500-4000 feet. It ought also to be noted that 

 wherever found on level lands, these are situated at a much 

 higher elevation than the open grounds affected by Q. Gar- 

 ryana. Though a shrub, it bears very plentifully ; and the 

 acorns are accounted very nourishing, the produce of forty or 

 fifty bushes being sufficient to fatten a hog. As a species it 

 is very distinct from any in North-west America, and, as far 

 as I am able to learn, as yet undescribed. It is " Quercus, 

 sp. {d), No. 249 " of my catalogue {I. c), and, like the fomier, 

 was discovered by me in Sept. 1865. It belongs to the divi- 

 sion LobatEe of the section Eulejndohalanus of the subgenus 

 Lepidohalajuis (ffirsted, Section I. Lejndohalanus^ A. DC. pro 

 parte). I have the honour to dedicate it to Dr. A. S. Oersted, 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Copenhagen, and 

 Inspector of the Polytechnic School there, a distinguished 

 traveller and naturalist, and the author of the able memoir on 

 the classification of the oaks to which I have abeady referred, 



3. Quercus echinoides^ R. Br. Campst. 



Leaf perennial, small, lanceolate, oblong-ellij^itical or rarely 

 obovate, shortly petiolate, serrate (except near the base), en- 

 tire or- with only a sinuate margin ; nerves hardly distinct 

 above, very distinct iuferiorly, reaching margin at base of 

 teeth when present, superiorly glabrous or slightly pubes- 

 cent, inferiorly covered with a cinereous down ; length of 

 leaf \\ inch, breadth f inch, length of petiole \ inch. Fruit 

 solitary or clustered in groups of 2-5 in axils of leaves, 

 united to stem by a short thick peduncle, densely covered 

 with cinereous pubescence, or sometimes sessile or subsessile ; 



* Hooker in 'Flor. Bor.-Am.' ii. p. 159. 



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