92 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. CONIFERZ. 
in habit, it spreads at high elevations over the mountains of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and 
San Luis Potosi, and southward to the mountains in the neighborhood of the City of Mexico, ascending 
the high peaks of central Mexico to the limits of vegetation.’ 
The wood of Juniperus sabinoides from Texas is light, hard, not strong, close-grained, slightly 
fragrant, and very durable in contact with the soil; it is slightly fragrant, and brown, often streaked 
with red, with thin nearly white sapwood, and contains numerous obscure medullary rays and thin dark- 
colored conspicuous bands of small summer-cells.? The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 
0.6907, a cubic foot weighing 43.04 pounds. It is largely used for fencing, fuel, telegraph-poles, and 
railway-ties. 
Discovered by Humboldt on the mountains in the state of Mexico, Juniperus sabinoides appears 
to have been first noticed in Texas by Berlandier.’ 
1 Pringle, Garden and Forest, i. 141, 441 ; iii. 338. bark, with one hundred and fifteen layers of annual growth, twenty 
? The specimen of Juniperus sabinoides in the Jesup Collection of being of sapwood. 
North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural His- ® See i. 82. 
ory, New York, is nine and a quarter inches in diameter inside the 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Prate DXXIII. JuNIPERUS SABINOIDES. 
. A flowering branch of the staminate tree, natural size. 
. A staminate flower, enlarged. 
A stamen, front view, enlarged. 
. A branch of the pistillate tree, natural size. 
. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a pistillate flower, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A fruit with part of the fleshy covering removed, enlarged. 
CONATR WON 
. A seed, enlarged. 
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. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
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a 
. An embryo, enlarged. 
12. End of a branchlet, enlarged. 
. End of a leaf, enlarged. 
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