784 ‘ PINACEZ CHAM XCY PARIS 
In threes, often with smaller ones in their axils, 5-10 lines long less than 
1 line wide, channelled and commonly whitened on the upper surface: 
berry-like cones sessile or nearly so, dark blue, 3-4 lines in diameter. 
On dry hills, northern Washington to Brit. Columbia and Pennsylvania. 
J. nana Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 854. A depressed rigid shrub seldom over 
18 inches high, forming irregular patches often 10 feet in diameter: leaves 
lanceolate, acute and cuspidate, 4-6 lines long, channelled and white above, 
dark ‘green and carinate beneath, mostly incurved : aments axillary: berry- 
like cones blue, 3-5 lines in diameter. Common in the high mountains 
and along the coast. California to Alaska and across the continent: also in 
Europe and Asia. 
§ 2 Saprna Spach 1. c. 291. Leaves ternate or opposite, of 
2 forms, mostly adnate and scale-like, closely appressed and 
crowded upon the branches and often glandular-pitted, occasion- 
ally more distinct, free and subulate. 
J. occidentalis Hook. Fi. ii, 166. A rather small tree 20-50 feet high 
and 1-2 feet in diameter: leaves in threes scale-like, closely imbricated 
and appressed, ovate, acute, convex on the back: usually very resinous 
fruit on short branchlets, solitary, numerous, globose or obovoid, 3-4 lines 
in diameter, blue-black, resinous: seeds 1-3, deeply pitted. On very dry 
plains and banks, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia and Idaho. 
J. scopulorum Sargent. J. Virginiana of authors as to the western 
tree. A tree 10-50 feet high, 1-2 feet in diameter: leaves mostly opposite; 
all those of young plants and commonly some of those of twigs of older trees 
subulate, spiny-tipped, 2-4 lines long, those of the mature branches scale- 
like, acute or subacute, closely appressed and imbricated, 4-ranked, causing 
the twigs to appear quadrangular: aments terminal: berry-like cones light 
blue, glaucous, about 3 lines in diameter, borne on straight peduncle-like 
branchlets of less than their own length, 1-2-seeded. In dry soil, eastern 
Washington to Brit. Columubia. 
2 CHAMACYPARIS Spach Hist. Veg. ii, 329. (1842,) 
Trees with minute opposite appressed 4 ranked scale-like ever- 
green leaves and small moncecious terminal aments. Staminate 
aments globose, with opposite 2—4-celled anthers, the cells globose, 
2-valved. Fertile aments globose, with few peltate opposite scales 
each bearing 2-5 erect seeds, closed until mature, each with a 
central point or knob. Seeds winged, maturing the first year. 
C. Lawsoniana Parlat. DC. Prodr. xvi, 464. A tall tree 100-200 feet 
high and 2-6 feet in diameter, with slender spreading or drooping branch- 
es: leaves small, deep green with a glaucous margin when young, acute or 
acutish, more or less glandular-pitted: cones 4lines in diameter glaucous 
when young, of 8-10 scales with the flattened summit crossed by a narrow 
transverse ridge: seeds 2-4 to each scale, wing-margined, 2 lines long. 
ae streams in the coast mountains, southern Oregon and northern 
alifornia. 
C. Nootkatensis Spach Hist. Veg. xi. 333. A slender tree 50-150 feet 
high and 1-3 feet in diameter at the base, with slender drooping branches 
and terete branchlets: leaves small, very acute, dark green, obscurely 
glandular: cones globose, 5-6 linesin diameter, of 4-6 thick green scales 
with very prominent central bosses: seeds 2-4 to each scale, thick and nar- 
Toss winged. On the highest parts of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon to 
aska. 
