CYPRESS FAMILY 



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Leaves not glandular, entire. 



5. SABINA Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. ed. 4. 1754. 

 Evergreen trees or shrubs with thin, shredded bark, and soft, close-grained, often 

 reddish, wood. Leaves persistent for several years, scale-like or sometimes awl-shaped, 

 opposite or in whorls of 3. decurrent at the base; flowers dioecious or monoecious, 

 terminal; the staminate solitary or clustered, their scales ovate or peltate, bearing 3-6 

 pollen-sacs; ovulate flowers subglobose, of 2-3 series of scales; ovules 1 or rarely 2 to 

 each scale : cones berry-like by the coalition of the fleshy scales ; seeds 1 to several, wing- 

 less ; cotyledons 2-6.. [The ancient classical name of a kind of juniper.] 



About 20 species, widely distributed over the northern henii>i)here. Type species, Juiiipenis sahiiia T.. 

 Berries large, red-brown with dry sweet pulp; cotyledons 4-6. 



Leaves glandular-pitted on the back, usually in 3's, rounded at the apex. 1. 5. californica. 



Leaves not glandular-pitted, acute or acuminate, usually in 2's. 2. 6". utahensis. 



Berries rather small, blue or blue-black, with a resinous pulp; cotyledons 2. 



Leaves conspicuously glandular on the back, denticulate. 3. S. occidentalis. 



4. 5". scopuloriun. 



1. Sabina californica (Carr. ) Antoine. 

 California Juniper. Fig. 156. 



Junipenis californica Carr. Rev. Hort. 1854: 352. /. 21. 



1854. 

 Sabina californica Antoine, Cupress. Gat. 52. pi. 71. 72. 



1S57. 



An arborescent shrub with numerous 

 branches forming a broad, rounded head, 2-4 

 m. high, or rarely a conical tree 12 m. high. 

 Leaves scale-like, closely appressed, usually in 

 3's, ovate to oblong, 4 mm. long, distinctly 

 glandular-pitted on the back, bluntly pointed ; 

 berries at first bluish with a dense bloom, at 

 maturity reddish brown beneath the bloom, 

 globose-oblong, 12-18 mm. long, nearly smooth, 

 the pulp firm, dry, and sweetish ; seeds 1 or 

 2, ovoid, sharp-pointed and angled, 6-9 mm. 

 long, light brown and shining above, dull and 

 yellowish toward the base; cotyledons 4-6. 



Dry hillsides. Upper Sonoran Zone; inner Coast 

 Ranges of California, from Lake County to the Te- 

 hachapi Mountains, and the western base of the .Sierra 

 Nevada in Tulare and Kern Counties. South of the 

 Tehachapi Mountains it is chiefly restricted to the 

 desert slopes of the mountains extending to northern 

 Lower California. Type locality: California; locality 

 not given. 



2. Sabina utahensis (Englm.) Rydb. 

 Utah Juniper. Fig. 157. 



Junipenis californica utahensis Engelm. Trans. St. 



Louis Acad. 3: 588. 1877. 

 Tiinipenis utahensis Lemmon, Rep. Calif. State Board 



Forestry 3: 183. pi. 28, f. 2. 1890. 

 Sabina utahensis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 598. 



1905. 



An arborescent shrub or small tree, rarely 

 over 2.5-3 m. high, with a very crooked trunk, 

 sometimes 6-8 dm. in diameter, but commonly 

 branched at the base, forming rounded clumps, 

 1.5-2 m. high. Leaves in 2's or rarely in 3's, 

 acute or acuminate, inconspicuously glandular 

 on the back or usually without glands, light 

 yellowish green ; staminate flowers with 18-24 

 stamens ; fruit maturing the second year, 

 rounded, or oblong, 6-9 mm. long, reddish 

 brown beneath the bloom when mature, with 

 a thick epidermis and thin dry sweet flesh ; 

 seeds 1 or rarely 2, ovate, acute, strongly and 

 abruptly angled, with a conspicuous hilum 

 extending nearly to the apex; cotyledons 4-6. 



Tlie arid mountains and table lands of the Great 

 Basin region, LTpper .Sonoran Zone; southern V\'yo- 

 ming and western Colorado to Nevada, northern Ari- 

 zona, and the Providence and Panamint Mountains 

 in southeastern California. Type localitv: Only gen- 

 eral range given. 



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