This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...on the lower surface, doubly serrate with revolute margins to the teeth. Cones oblong, almost an inch long. Seeds winged. Winter buds glutinous, almost inch long. In canons near the coast throughout the state and extending to Alaska. (.4. rubra Bong.) A. rhombifolia Nutt. Bark light brown, smooth. Leaves ovate or oval, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...on the lower surface, doubly serrate with revolute margins to the teeth. Cones oblong, almost an inch long. Seeds winged. Winter buds glutinous, almost inch long. In canons near the coast throughout the state and extending to Alaska. (.4. rubra Bong.) A. rhombifolia Nutt. Bark light brown, smooth. Leaves ovate or oval, paler beneath, irregularly glandular-toothed. Cones oblong, almost an inch long. Seeds margined but not winged. The fruit ripens early in the year, as the next season's flowers are blooming. Widely distributed throughout California. A. tenuifolia Nutt. A small tree, or often forming thickets. Bark red-brown. Leaves ovate, rounded or heart-shaped at base, doubly serrate with acute teeth, veins prominent. In the Sierra Nevada and northward, especially on the eastern slope of the mountains. CUPULIFERffi. Oak Family. Trees or shrubs with lobed, dentate, serrate or entire leaves. Staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant, but separate; the former in fringe-like catkins or in spikes; the latter forming in fruit either a nut in a cup-like involucre, called an acorn, or one or more nuts enclosed in a bristly covering called a bur. QUERCUS. Oak. Staminate flowers in drooping, fringe-like catkins (erect in Q. densiflora, the tan bark oak), each flower with a 6-lobed perianth; pistillate flowers usually single, consisting of a 3-celled ovary which becomes an acorn with only one ovule maturing to form the nut. Stigmas 3. Black Oaks. Bark dark, almost black; leaves dark green and glossy. Deciduous species., Q. Californica Cooper. Black Oak, Kellogg's Oak, Yosemite Oak. Plate Xxv, Fig. 1. Leaves with sharppointed pinnate lobes, the spaces between the lobes broad and shallow, the lobes coarsely and sharply toothed, 4-9 inches long, 2-4 inche...
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