WATSON- Plants of Bernalillo County 
fruit a 1-seeded globose drupe, 1-4 inch or more 
broad, on a slender stem; 4-10 of an inch or 5-10 of 
an inch long. Common along the lower parts of the 
streams flowing out of Bear Tijeras, Pinon, and proba- 
bly other canons. The last trees as you descend these 
streams; are not usually over 15 feet high. 
Look for C.patuipa, a shrub 6-10 feet high with an 
erange-yellow colored fruit and for C. occIDENTILIs, 
the common hackberry of the East which is larger with 
a reddish or yellowish fruit which turns purple at ma- 
turity. They may occur here. 
61. CUPULIFERAE. Oax Fanny. 
Trees or shrubs with alternate simple _ straight- 
veined leaves; decideous stipules; monoecious flowers, 
the sterile in catkins the fertile in solitary or small 
clusters. 
Quercus, L. (Oak.) 
Trees or shrubs, blossoming in April or May and ma- 
turing their acorns in autumn of the same year (in 
ours) ; or the following year. Our species are very con- 
fusing and others probably ocur. 
Q.aaMBELIUs Hngelm is the taller oak found in dense 
groves in the canons and growing to 20 feet or more 
high ; nuts edible. 
Q. UNLULATE, var. JAmeEsit, is the lower shrub oak 
with the smaller leaves, that covers most of the higher 
slopes of the mountains and Rim Rock. This and the 
last are deciduous. 
Live Oaks are evergreen shrubs with more or less 
spiny leaves which resemble those of the holly. Our 
species are difficult for a beginner, the species are 
Q. Grisea. Lack and Q. TURBINATA. 
62. SALICINEAE. (Writtow Famity. 
Dioecious trees and shrubs, with both kinds of 
flowers without envelopes, (except a bract), and in 
catkins. Seeds with long down to catch the wind. Wood 
soft and light, bark bitter. 
Bracts entire; stamens few, stigmas short, buds witht 
single scale, - - - hats - Sarrx, 
Bracts lacerate, stamena numerous, stigma long, bud 
scaly, . : - - Popvtuus. 
Satix, LZ. Willow. 
Too well known to need further description. Not 
common here. 
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