Se Paral: 
2e de commute) vars Stes troreststaytt Dwarf Juniper. —> A low 2% 
shrub rarely more than 1 m. tall in our region, at lower elevations (as in is.3 
the Kootenai Valley) with branches ascending, more or less straight, at 
higher elevations sprawling over rocks, even pendent; bark ashy, scaling, 
pranchlets light brown, scaling very quickly; leaves persistent for several 
years, in whorls of three, averaging about 10 mae longs, rigid, curving up- 
wards, acuminate to a spinose tip, the upper surface white, channeled, the 
lower surface glossy, keeled, the decurrent portion bearing a conspicuous 
oil bearing tubercle,decurrent at the base; berries axillary, subglobose, 
6-9 mm. in diameter, mature the second summer, green, then bluish-black with 
a bloom, commonly with 2-3 seeds, staminate cones numerous, axillary, 2.5 mm... % 
long, the anther sacs 4-6, the free tip or the scale triangular-ovate, eet 
acute, 1 mme long. 
frequent in elevations as low as 2000 ft., then occurring in dry 
cravelly spots, frequent at subalpine elevations sprawling over and pendent 
from rock ledges, where it frequently sorms sround cover of some importance 
in soil formation. 
