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It grew abundantly on the northern footslopes of the San Bernardino Mountains, 

 between Cajon Pass and Hesperia (No. 52); and occasional specimens were seen on 

 the south slope of the pass as far down as Cajon station on the Southern California 

 Railway (No. 125). It was seen also at Soledad Pass; at Liebre Ranch, in the 

 western end of the Mohave Desert; on the hillsides back of Fort Tejon; in Tehach- 

 api Canon; at several points on the, mountain slopes between Kernville and Walker 

 Basin; and on the slopes of Walker Pass. At the stations on the west slope of 

 the Sierra Nevada the tree occurred in scarcely sufficient abundance to determine 

 its zonal limits. It was found to some extent in both the chaparral belt and that 

 of Douglas's oak. Wherever it occurred on the eastern slope of the Cordilleran 

 system it occupied the Upper Sonoran zone. 



Juniperus californica utahensis Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 588 (1877) 

 Type locality, "all over the southern parts of Utah and into Arizona and Nevada." 



This variety differs morphologically from the type form in scarcely anything ex- 

 cept the smaller size of its fruit and the fewer number of its seeds. In its range it 

 is confined entirely to the Great Basin region. It is a characteristic tree of the 

 Upper Sonoran zone, and, since it extends a little lower than Finn* monoplu/lla, 

 grows at a lower altitude on the desert mountains than any other coniferous tree. 

 It occurs in the Charleston Mountains (No. 301), beginning at altitudes on the 

 western slope, of 1,585 and 1,450 meters and extending far into the nut pines; in the 

 Panamint Mountains (Nos.645, 656,058), beginning at altitudes of 1,740, 1,645, 1,770, 

 and 1,800 meters; and on the east slope of the Inyo Mountains, at 1,815 meters. Spec- 

 imens were collected by Mr. Palmer in the Coso Mountains (No. 882), and Mr. 

 Funston reported it from the Grapevine Mountains. Dr. Merriam found it also in 

 the White Mountains of California; the Pahranagat, Pahroc, Hyfco, Highland, and 

 Juniper (No. 1992) mountains of Nevada; and the Beaverdam Mountains of Utah. In 

 the western part of its range, as in the Coso and Inyo mountains and that part of 

 the Panamint Mountains near Jackass Spring, the tree did not occur abundantly and 

 on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and on the Argus Mountains it was not 

 found at all. 



Juniperus occidentalis Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 166 (1838). Type locality, 

 "N. W. America; banks of the waters in the Rocky Mountains." 



This tree, the western juniper, occurred sparingly in the higher Sierra Nevada, 

 near Mineral King, and between Farewell (Jap and the north fork of Kern Kiver. Mr. 

 Palmer collected it at Horse Corral Meadows (No. 2086), on the headwaters of Kings 

 Kiver. In the Transition zone of the Panamint Mountains (Nos. 536, 539) were col- 

 lected specimens of a tree which is doubtfully referred here. It may be the va- 

 riety monospervta. 



Juniperus occidentalis monosperma Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 590 

 (1877). Type locality, "from the Pike's Peak region of Colorado, through West 

 Texas and New Mexico to Arizona and California." 



Specimens were collected in the southern part of the San Francisco Mountaiu, 

 Arizona (No. 2), and in the Charleston Mountains, Nevada (No. 322). It was also 

 reported by Mr. Funston from Grapevine Teak, Nevada. The tree grows in the 

 Transition zone. 



Juniperus pachyphlcea Torr. Pae. R. Rep. iv. 142 (1857). Typo locality, "on 

 the Zuni Mountains, Western New Mexico." 

 San Francisco Mountain, Arizona (No. 3). 



Tumion californictim (Torr.) N. Y. Journ. Pharm. iii. 51 (1854), under Torrcya; 

 Greene, Pittonia, ii. 195 (1891). Type locality, " upper part of the Yuba and Feather 

 rivers, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, of California." 



This tree, the California false nutmeg, was found only in the valley of the Kaweah 

 River, at a few points between Kane Flat and Big Tree Canon (No. 1752), growing 

 at and below the lower limit of the yellow pine belt. 

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