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thick, bright cinnamon red. Ultimate branchlets stout. Leaves 

 arranged in six ranks, three in a whorl, closely pressed, long or 

 shortpointed, grey-green, ^ in. long, rounded and conspicuously 

 glandular on the back. Fruit sub -globose or oblong, ^^ in. 

 long, bluish-black, with a glaucous bloom. Seeds 2-3 to each 

 fruit, ovate, acute, about | in. long, deeply grooved or pitted on 

 the back. 



This species occurs on the mountain slopes and high prairies 

 in W.N. America, British Columbia to the Sierra Nevada moun- 

 tains in California, where it is found up to an altitude of 10,000 ft., 

 sometimes attaining a large size and great age. It is in cultivation 

 at Dawyck, Peebles. 



The timber is moderately heavy, close-grained, fragrant, and 

 durable. It is comparable to rough grades of J. virginiana, and 

 is much used for fences. 



Sargent, Silva of N. America, x, 87. 



Juniperus Oxycedrus, Linnajus. (Fig. 55.) 

 Sharp Cedar. 



Brown-berried Cedar. 



A compact shrub or small tree occasionally 30 ft. high and 

 10 ft. in girth. Branchlets angled. Leaves awl-shaped in altern- 

 ate whorls of 3, spreading, narrow, |-f in. long, tapering to 

 an acuminate point, swollen and jointed at the base, margin 

 entire ; upper surface with a narrow green midrib, on each side 

 of which is a white stomatic band which is equal in width to the 

 marginal green band ; lower surface green, convex, keeled. Male 

 and female flowers on different trees. 31 ale flowers solitary in 

 the axil of a leaf, 2-3 in each whorl, stalkless, ovoid, about l in. 

 long. Fruit ripening in the second year, solitary in the leaf 

 axUs, on short stalks about iV in. long, globose, |-| in. in diameter, 

 shining reddish brown when ripe, occasionally glaucous, com- 

 posed of 3-6 scales, each with a minute point. Seeds normally 

 3, reddish brown, oblong, triangular, ridged, with two resin 

 glands at the base. 



This species is very variable in the wild state, and the following 

 varieties have been described : — 



Var. brachyphylla, Loret. 



Leaves short, bluntly pointed, pinkish, glaucous. On Ume- 

 stone rocks at Saint Beet, Haute Garonne, France. 



Var. maderensis, Menezes. 



Leaves very slender, ;^-f in. long, 3V in. broad, rounded, or 

 shortly pointed at the apex. Fruit brown with a glaucous tinge. 



