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lobed foliaceous bracts long-exserted, usually reflexed ; cones long, 1-1 J' 
wide, somewhat clustered, pendulous, obtusisli, scales concave, rounded, 
entire, pubescent; bracts long-exserted, bifid, the acuminate suberose-dentate 
lobes shorter than the cuspidate midnerve; seed 3" long, acutely margined, a 
little shorter than the oblong obtuse wing.— Bark rather thin, ;i>h or i-cddish- 
gray ; wood coarse-grained, but tough and hard. From Washington Territory 
to Southern California, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and New 
Mexico. In the Uintas ; 7-9,000 feet ahitude; known as ''Bear River" or 
Swamp Pine." (1,118.) 
LiBOCEDEUS^ DECUKRENS, Torr. DC. Frodr. IG. 2. 45G. Tall, with 
spreading branches and green flattened distichous ahciiud(; glal)r()us l>nnich- 
lets; leaves 1-5" long, adnatc, the ovate sharp-mucronate a[)ex only free, 
the marginal leaves scarcely longer ; sterile amcnts '1-11" long, oval, erect, 
anthers 3, with rounded subentire crests ; cones 8-12" long, erect or pend(Mil, 
ovate-oblong, cinnamon-color; scales 6, the lower usually very much short ei-, 
ovate or oblong, rounded at the apex, the middle pair 3-5" wide, oblong, con- 
vex, equaUng the narrowly hnear upper ones ; seed 4-6" long, oblong, wings 
often confluent, very narrow on the outer margin, obtuse, equaling the scales. — 
California and Southern Oregon, especially in the Sierras. Washoe Moun- 
tains, above Carson City, Nevada ; 7,000 feet altitude. (1,119.) 
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS, L., Var. alpina, L. From Maine and the Great 
Lakes throughout Northern America to the Arctic Ocean and Greenland; 
southward in the mountains to Washington Territory and Colorado. East 
Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 9-10,000 feet altitude. As is often the case 
the leaves appear decurrent on the stem below the articulation, bearing con- 
spicuous vesicles filled with resin. (1,120.) 
JuNiPEEUS ViRGiNiANA, L. From Florida fo California, and northward 
to Canada, the Saskatchewan and Oregon. liare in the f^ast IIund)oldt 
' LIBOCEDRUS, Exdl. Flowers iiiomvcions on difrcront Itram In-.^. >uiiirt imcs (lincicnis. Ariu iits 
solitary, terminal ; sterile ones cylindric, or ovate and Hulitctrai;-on;il. Siaiucns d.'( iis>af i lv oii))(»il(', 
■with snhpcltate crests, and each witii 3-4 loii;4itudinally d<diise<'iit antlicrs on ilic dorsal side. Fn file 
aments bracteate, Avitli 1-6 decnssati ly opiiosite erect scales, (he hiwcr |iair usually stcrih'. thr tliird wlicii 
present connate info a longifndinal sc]ifurn. Ovules 2, lla>k-slia ji- d. Cone rijK iiin;,^ r!ic (iist \. ar; scah s 
sobwoody, raucrouati- helow the a[H x. cn-rf. at Icn^^tli sprcadin;;. Seeds in pairs or sfdiiai \ , en i t.,,ldnii^r. 
the membranous -vviiin- nearly equaliiii;- (lie m a)es, inecpiiJatera]. ICnihiyo axial and as loii^ as the lh s))\ 
albumen; cotyledons 'l] radicle cyliudric, snju'rior.— Fver;^reens, with siuonth liark and lii^Iit-eoloied 
close-grained wood; branches scattered ; leaves decnssately ojtjiosite, inibrieatcd liy foni s and -eale-like, 
dissimilar, the facial ones smaller, flat and appressed, often glaudulos( uinal ones Inact-like and 
carinate, glandless. 
