118 JUNIPEllUS ; OR 



a glaucous silvery colour ; those of the open shoots on the young 

 plants, almost white, and with a very strong, disagreeable smell 

 when bruised. Berries, globular, smooth, deep purple, covered 

 with a silvery white powder, and produced singly on the ends 

 of the small branchlets on the upper part of the tree. 



A tall tree, growing from sixty to eighty feet high, and two 

 or three feet in diameter. 



It was first found by Douglas, growing on the Stony Islands 

 in the Columbia River, and in the valley of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; a tree sixty or eighty feet high. Jeffrey more recently 

 found it on the Klamet Mountains, in the Oregon country, at 

 an elevation of 5,000 feet, growing on desert tracts of country, 

 where there was scarcely any other vegetable production ; the 

 soil being almost entirely composed of sand, and very dry. A tree 

 forty feet high, with an umbrella-shaped top, and sometimes 

 three feet in diameter, with a foliage covered with a silvery 

 bloom, and very strong scented. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. SO. JuNiPERUs Phcenicea, Z., the Phcenicean Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus tetragona, Mcench. 

 „ „ Phcenicea sclerocarpa, Endlicher. 



Leaves, opposite, or in threes, bright green, imbricated, 

 bluntly egg-shaped, somewhat channelled, and convex on the 

 back, and perfectly smooth ; but on some of the branches a few 

 open, sharp, lanceolate, glaucous leaves are found in whorls of 

 three. Young branches, entirely covered with very small leaves, 

 which are disposed in threes, opposite to each other, closely 

 covering the surface of the branchlet, and laid one upon another, 

 like scales. Male and female flowers mostly on separate plants, 

 but sometimes they are both found on the same plant. Berries, 

 terminal, about the size of a pea, pale yellow, shining, of an 

 irregular, globular form, slightly compressed, and angular ; the 

 pulp is dry, fibrous, and containing three or four seeds in each 

 berry. 



A small tree, or large bush, from fifteen to twenty feet in 



