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less drawn out and then flattened at the base where it is attached by a 
wedge-shaped point that is inserted into the leaf vein, petiole, or twig, 
galls from compacted clusters often flattened on the sides; at first light 
green in color, brown or gray when mature, more or less smooth, mature 
galls microscopically roughened and irregularly reticulated with blunt 
papillae and raised ridges, dried galls often wrinkled; the surface mi- 
croscopically puberulent or finely and sparsely pubescent with stellate 
and sometimes longer hairs. Internally more or less compact fibrous, the 
area directly under the epidermis and about the larval cell crystalline 
and compact, the intervening space filled with much branched, more or 
FIGS. 31-32. VARIETIES OF CYNIPS MULTIPUN CTAT A 
On Quercus douglasii (fig. 31), and on Q. lobata (fig. 32). Showing host and 
geographic isolation. 
less compacted, silky or crystalline fibers; the larval cell large, oval 
to round, up to 4.0 mm. in length, placed nearer the base of the gall, 
the wall of the cell hardly distinct, not at all separable. On the leaves, 
attached to the veins, on the petioles, or young twigs of Quercus lohata 
and Q. douglasii. 
RANGE. — California, thruout the Great Valley and adjacent areas, 
at least from Shasta to Kern Counties, probably wherever Q. lobata 
and Q. douglasii occur. 
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