308 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



it may be easily confounded. It does not have such broad crowns nor such 

 enormous limbs as the California live oak. Its similar, but very much thicker, 

 leathery, shiny, perfectly smooth leaves (figs. 141, 142) are flat (never curled), 

 deep green on their top sides and light yellow-green beneath. The leaf stems 



Fig. 142. — Querent* wislizeni. 



are generally very minutely and plentifully (sometimes sparsely) hairy. Unlike 

 those of the California live oak. the leaves of this tree remain on the branches 

 for about two seasons and begin to fall during the second summer or autumn. 



