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bark: branchlets short, stout, very leafy, tomentose-pubeacent : leaves 

 broadly obovate: veinlets only gradually divergent from the midrib and 

 directing the lobes somewhat digitately toward the apex of the leaf which 

 ia broadest far above the middle ■ acorns ovate, less than an inch long, well 

 inserted into a hemispherical scaly cup. On Islands in Puget Sound and 

 northward. 



Q. (Erstediana H.'Br. Oampst. I. c. A shrub 2-6 feet high, with pu- 

 bescent branchlets: leaves 3-5 inches long, Hsually deeply pinnatifid, 

 sometimes merely sinuate; lobes obtuse or acutish, entire or toothed : sta- 

 minate amenta rather few-flowered, erect: acorns rarely subsessile. usually 

 several, crowded near the summit of a peduncle an inch long or more ; cup 

 shallow,1 strongly tuberculate : nut oval, obtuse, an inch long. On dry 

 mountain sides at middle or high elevations, i?outhern Oregon to 

 California. 



*+ •"■ Leaves persistent- through winter and mostly until the appear- 

 ance of new leaves for the next season. 



(J. Satlleriana R. Br. Oampst. 1. c. A shrub 4-6 feet high with rather 

 dark-colored bark and glabrous branchlets : buds oblong densely silky : 

 stipules filiform, densely silky : leaves oblong to obovate, not^lobed," serrate, 

 1-3 inches long, on petioles 2-6 lines long, dark green above, at length be- 

 coming whitish and strongly reticulated beneath : aments densely flowered 

 erect or spreading 1-4 inches long : bracts silky, sepals ovate : stamens about 

 8 : acorns sessile or nearly so ; cup shallow, tuberculate, 5-6 lines broad : 

 nut oblong, obtuse, about 8 lines long. In moist places on top of the coast 

 mountaina along the old Wimer road, alao on top of the Siskiyou Mountains 

 near the Happy Camp trail. 



•t- *■ Acorns maturing the second season, the nuts often pubescent 



within. 



Q. chrysolepis Leibm. in Benth. Pl.'Hartw. 336. As represented in 

 our region a small tree or low shrub 2-30 feet high, farther south a large 

 tree, with ashy-gray flaky bark and glabrous branchlets : leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate entire or sharply dentate, acute, cuspidate obtuse or subcordate 

 at base, 1-3 inches long, at first fnlvous-tomentose beneath; after a year 

 glabrate and bluish or whitish, on petioles about 3 lines long; amenta some- 

 times branched, tomentose, soon glabrate: calyx lobes 5-7, "broadly ovate, 

 acute glabrous, ciliate : anthers about 10, conspicuously cuspidate : pistillate 

 flowers sessile, or rarely in spikes : cups coveredjwith small triangular ap- 

 pressed scales, more or less hidden in the dense yellow or fulvous tomen • 

 turn, very variable in shape and size, 4-12 lines wide, hemispherical and 

 rather thin to flat saucer-shaped and very thick with a broad thick rim : 

 nut oval, obtuse 6-18 lines long, and half as thick. Along streams, South- 

 ern Oregon to California. 



({. vaccinifolia Kellogg Proc. Am. Acad i, 96. A low Shrub 1-4 feet 

 high, densely branched and very leafy : leaves ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 

 entire or with a few sharp teeth on one or both margins acute and very 

 shortly or not at all cuspidate, 6-18 lines long, on petioles '4-6 lines long 

 yellowish green and glabrous on the upper side, white or whitish with a 

 dense scurf beneath, obtuse or subcordate at base : stipules 4-6 lines long 

 linear-lanceolate somewhat silky ; aments glabrous : ca'yx-lobes 5-7, broadly 

 ovate : anthers about 8, not cuspidate : pistillate flowei s sessile or i n spikes : 

 cups covered with small appres.sed scales not tomento'je : nuts 8-12 lines 

 long. ^Common on dry rocky hillsides Southeastern Oregon and adjacent 

 California. 



* * Anthers usually 4 or 5 : stigmas on long apreading or recurved 



styles : abortive ovules borne at the top of the seed. 



Q. Kelloggii Newberry Pac. R. Eep. vi, 28. fig. 6, A middle-sized 



