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Quercus CHRYSOLEPIS, Liebm. l. c. p. 118, Benth. Pl. Hartw. р. 336. Q. crassipocula, Zorr, 
in Pacif. В. Road Expl. 6 ‚р. 965, t. 9. Q. fulvescens, Kellogg in Proceed. Calif. Acad. Nat. 
Sc. 1, p. 67 & 71; Newberry 1. с. p. 21, f. 5. Mountains of California, from Oregon to the 
southern boundary line. An evergreen oak, 30-40 feet high, with pale bark. The heart-wood 
is dark-colored, and it is said to be good timber. The acorns are often of great size and the 
cups extremely thick, as represented in my figure of Q. crassipocula, but sometimes not larger 
than those of the Live Oak (Q. virens). We adopt Liebmann's earlier name for this beautiful 
species. 
Quercus DUMOSA, Nutt. Sylv. 1, p. 1? Near San Diego, California; Parry. A shrub, 5-8 
feet high, and very densely branched. The leaves are sempervirent, ovate, and 8-10 lines long. 
Our specimens accord well with Nuttall's description; but he did not see the acorns. "These are 
sessile, solitary and in pairs, about three-quarters of an inch long ; the cup hemispherical ; the 
gland ovate-oblong, tapering to a point and scarcely more than one-third of an inch in diameter 
at the base. Dr. Parry states in his notes, that the leaves are sometimes larger and oblong. 
QUERCUS ACUTIDENS (n. sp.): foliis oblongis coriaceis basi acutiusculis vel cuneatis inequaliter 
grosse dentatis, dentibus cuspidatis pungentibus supra glabris nitidulis subtus pallidis minute 
tomentosis; fructibus sessilibus solitariis; cupula hemispherica, squamis incrassatis; glande 
oblongo-ovata. (Тав. LI.) Near San Luis ner, California; Parry.—** Generally a low shrubby 
bush; but sometimes a tree 20 feet high." The leaves are 14-2 inches long and 8-10 lines 
wide. The acorns are more than an inch long and much resemble those of the White Oak (Q. 
alba). 
QUERCUS CONFERTIFOLIA, H. B. K. РІ. дий. 2, p. 53, t. 94? Near the Copper Mines, New 
Mexico; Thurber; No. 1869, Wright. Sierra del Pajarito, Sonora; Schott. San Francisco 
mountain; Captain E. x d Smith.—A small tree. Liebmann seems to have referred it to Q. 
cinerea, as he includes that species in his list of New Mexican Oaks (doubtless of Wright's 
collection) which he examined in the herbarium of Sir William Hooker, and Mr. Wright found 
no other Quercus in New Mexico resembling Q. cinerea. Our plant has thickly coriaceous, 
lanceolate, acute leaves, which are 8-4 inches long, and from three-quarters of an inch to nearly 
an irch broad. They are commonly entire and revolute on the margin, but occasionally show 
1-3 minute teeth, nearly smooth and pale green above, very densely yellowish-tomentose 
underneath. The acorns are nearly sessile, solitary and in pairs; the cup hemispherical with 
broad, obtuse, pubescent scales, and the unripe acorn is ovate. Q. cinerea differs in its much 
thinner non-revolute leaves, and thin pale pubescence. The acorns also seem to differ, but we 
have not seen the ripe ones of Q. confertifolia. 
RAFFLESIAS Z. 
Рпозтүшз Тнсввеві, Gray, Pl. Thurb. in Мет. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 5, p. 326. (Тав, ШІ.) 
On a mountain near the Gila, June, parasitic on the branches of Dalea Emoryi; Thurber. 
CONIFER 
EPHEDRA ANTISIPHILITICA, Berland.; С. A. Meyer, Ephedr. 101, ex Endl. Syn. Соту. p. 263. 
Western Texas, from the Nueces to the Rio Grande, and from Frontera to Eagle Pass, April, 
Мау. San Diego, California; Parry. Ranconado Pass, Cohahuila ; Thurber. Between Mapami 
ee кош Gregg, ved 1882 and 1883, Wright.) The Mexicans call the plant 
