188 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
sis), are donbtful species. From Wright’s collection he described Q. 
pungens, hastata and grisea, already published by Torrey, the two former 
greaves’ : 
named, when he published them: Q. crassipocula (in Williamson's Vr rt) 
is chrysolepis Liebm., described in **Plantze Hartwegians;" Q. tinctoria 
var. Culifornica (in W Lb S seien is utitur Bth.; longi odi in 
* Frem. Geogr. Mem. of Cal," is 7 Née; echinacea (in Whipple’s 
Rep.) is e sryalenin n Sites es' Report) is agrifolia Née. 
In ** Mexican Boundary Survey " (1858), is a new species described as 
Q. 
acutidens from pen steel wasn by De Candolle; another, obtusifolia, 
falls under undulata Torr., as a variety ; auodier vatriséy is there mentioned, 
Q. coccinea var. microcarpa. Kellogg published in the ** Proceedings of 
of 
the California Academy of Sciences," vol. i, some new species, which are 
not new: Q. fulvescens is chrysolepis Lbm. ; dere doses is agrifolia Née; 
` Ransomi is lobata N?e. His Q. Morchus (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ii) is 
doubtful. Newberry proposed what ita ey to ik fo or a variety of tinctoria 
i.e. coccined), as a new species, Q. Kelloggii, MAN falls under yes 
mensis Benth. Curtis, 1849, proposed a new eastern species, Q. yes 
Shuttleworth's Q. Floridana is the var. f. WloHdana of Q. stellata ac- 
cording to De Candolle, perhaps p oid Svar. parvifolia? E aes in 
* Genera Plantarum," Suppl. iv, 2, 1847, enumerates one hundred and 
ninety-seven described oaks, of which one hundred and one are American. : 
BRENDEL, Peoria, Ill. (To be concluded.) 
ZOOLOGY. 
eris Horns. — The article in the December number of the NATURA- 
ms to me dee bs the eons of careless — nes The ‘Common 
ary observer would be thought old 
animals. : 
T er of persons hunting 
in the Mirondcis increases very 
rapidly, and every hunter is bent on procuring a fine pair of horns as a tro- 
phy, and as it takes at least six or eight years for a buck to grow a fine 
