Postelstia 203 
abundant in the high ranges of eastern British 
Columbia. 
Section Sabina. Haller ex Ruppins, FI. 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 whorls bearing 
one or two erect ovules at its base. 
Juniperus scopulorum Sargent. Sylva of N. 
eis -OpenGo2, ined Cedar: 
A small tree with an irregularly round-topped 
head; twigs slender;leaves opposite, acute, en- 
, glandular, scale-like and closely appressed; 
fine 
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 1 
centimeter in diameter; seeds ovate, acute, prom- 
inently grooved and angled. The eastern 
foothills of the Rocky Mountains, westward to 
