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out horizontally that are mostly broken and bare 

 at the ends, but densely covered and embedded 

 here and there with bossy mounds of gray foliage. 

 Some are mere weathered stumps, as broad as long, 

 decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding one 

 of the crumbling towers of some ancient castle 



JUNIPER, OR RED CEDAR. 



scantily draped with ivy. Only upon the head 

 waters of the Carson have I found this species es 

 tablished on good moraine soil. Here it flourishes 

 with the Silver and Two-leaved Pines, in great 

 beauty and luxuriance, attaining a height of from 

 forty to sixty feet, and manifesting but little of 

 that rocky angularity so characteristic a feature 



