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abundant in the high ranges of eastern British 

 Columbia. 



Section Sabina. Haller ex Ruppins, Fl. Jen. 

 ed. 2, 336.1745 as genus. 



Leaves mostly scale-like, appressed, or in 

 young plants and especially in vigorous shoots 

 of old plants spreading, acicular, not jointed at 

 the base. Flowers terminal on short leafy 

 branches. Pistillate flower of two or three 

 whorls of scales, the distal whorl usually sterile, 

 each of the scales of the other wdiorls bearing 

 one or two erect ovules at its base. 



Juniperiis scopitlorum Sargent. Sylva of N. 

 A. 13:93.1902. Red Cedar. 



A small tree with an irregularly round-topped 

 head; twigs slender; leaves opposite, acute, en- 

 tire, glandular, scale-like and closely appressed; 

 scales of pistillate flower opposite, the three 

 distal pairs becoming fleshy and completely 

 coalescent in fruit; fruit usually two-seeded 

 ripening the second year, bright blue, about i 

 centimeter in diameter; seeds ovate, acute, prom- 

 inently grooved and angled. The eastern 

 foothills of the Rocky Mountains, westward to 



