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8. Que rcus Kelloggii, Newherry. 



Quereus Kelloggii, Newberry, 1. c. p. 28, fig. xylog. 



Q, tinctoria, var. Galiforniea, Torr. Bot.Whippl. Rep. p. 138. 



Hab. On the sides of mountains, from the northern borders of Cali- 

 fornia, southward to San Rafael and Santiago. — In favorable situations 

 this tree is 60 feet high, and 3 feet in diameter, but more commonly 

 it is of moderate stature and of irregular growth. It is closely allied 

 to Q. tinctoria, and in Whipple's Report I described it as a variety of 

 that species, but I now regard it as distinct, and adopt the name given 

 to it by Dr. Newberry. It also resembles Q. coccinea. In the charac- 

 ter of the bark and trunk it resembles the former. The lobes of the 

 leaves are drawn out to a more bristle-like point than is represented 

 in the figure quoted above. The acorns, which vary from globose- 

 ovate to elliptical, are sometimes more than an inch and a half long 

 and an inch in diameter, which is one-third greater than their usual 

 size. The cup is still more variable, being sometimes only one-third 

 the length of the gland, and occasionally inclosing all but the 

 summit. 



2. CASTANOPSIS, Spach, 

 1. Castanopsis chrtsophylla, A. DC. P)-odr. 



, Castanea chrysophylla, Dougl. in Hook. PI. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 159 ; Hook. Loud. 

 Jour. Bot. 2, p. 495, t. 16 ; Torr. in Bot. Whippl. Rep. p. 137 ; Newberry 1. c. 

 p. 26, fig. 4 (xylog.). 

 C. sempervirens, Kellogg in Proceed. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1, p. 71. 



Hab. On the Columbia River, Oregon, and in California as far south as 

 Monterey. — It is often a mere shrub, bearing abundance of fruit when 

 only 3 or 4 feet high. On the Umpqua Mountains Mr. Brackenridge 

 saw trees of it 30 and 40 feet high. In other parts of California, as 

 at Santa Cruz and Bolanas Bay, it occurs 50 and 60 feet high. The 

 leaves vary from ovate and rather obtuse to lanceolate and acuminate, 



