Postelsia IQ1 
the carpels; carpel bearing one to many erect 
ovules near its base; the upper side of the car- 
pel outgrowing the lower side in ripening, and 
displacing the original apex so that in fruit it 
appears as a boss upon the back of the cone- 
scale. Fruit a woody cone, or drupaceous or 
berry-like. 
Evergreen trees and shrubs of wide geograph- 
ical distribution. The following genera oc- 
cur in Vancouver Island and the adjacent re- 
eions. 
Cones woody, elliptical, scales overlapping, 
Thuja 
Cones woody, spherical, scales peltate 
Cupressus 
Cones fleshy and drupaceous or (in all 
American species) berry-like. 
Juniperus 
tia, Cinneus, Sp. Pl. 160211753: 
Aromatic trees with distichous branchlets, 
flattened twigs, and imbricated, appressed di- 
morphic, scale-like leaves, the lateral leaves of 
the twigs conduplicate, carinate, overlapping 
the flat leaves of the dorsal and ventral ranks, 
