94 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. CONIFER 2. 
to eastern Oregon, Nevada, and northern Arizona.’ Nowhere very common, it grows on dry rocky 
ridges, and except near the coast usually at elevations of more than five thousand feet above the level 
of the sea. 
Juniperus scopulorum was discovered. in October, 1804, by Lewis and Clark during their journey 
across the continent.’ 
1 In 1846 Juniperus scopulorum was found by Wislizenus in New 2 Lewis and Clark’s specimen preserved by the American Philo- 
Mexico (No. 503 in herb. Engelmann) ; and the following year by _ sophical Society shows that the tree called by Pursh and by Nuttall 
Fendler at Santa Fé (No. 835), where this Juniper is compara- Juniperus excelsa was Juniperus scopulorum, and not, as has usually 
tively common. In April, 1874, it was collected by Dr. J.B. Ge- been supposed, the Juniperus occidentalis of Hooker. 
rard near Fort Apache, Arizona. (Teste herb. Engelmann.) 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Prare DCCXXXIX. Jvunirervus scopuLorum. 
A branch with staminate flowers, natural size. 
A staminate flower, enlarged. 
An anther, rear view, enlarged. 
A branch with pistillate flowers, natural size. 
A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
A scale of a pistillate flower, upper side, with its ovules, enlarged. 
A fruiting branch, natural size. 
A fruit divided transversely, enlarged. 
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A seed, enlarged. 
End of a branchlet, enlarged. 
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. Tip of a leaf, enlarged. 
