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have threatened to cut them down for firewood. A few trees are said to 

 exist on a tract transferred by the city to the San Diego Biological Associa- 

 tion, by whom it is to be hoped they may receive due appreciation and care. 

 As it thrives with us in cultivation many more should be planted around 

 San Diego, and thus preserve the species from possible extinction.] 

 JUNIPERUS Tournefort ex Linnaeus, Syst ed 1 (1735). 



Juniper. A genus of the northern hemisphere, including some 20 old 

 world species and 10 American. The wood is fine-grained, not resinous, 

 exceedingly durable, the heart-wood usually reddish and more or less frag- 

 rant. Fls dioecious or sometimes monoecious, the small solitary amenta 

 axillary, or terminal upon short lateral branchlets; scales few and (like the 

 Ivs) decussately binate or ternate. Stam fls oblong-ovate; anth-cells 4-8 

 under each shield-shaped scale. Fertile ament of 2 or 3 series of fleshy 

 scales, with 2 erect ovules to each scale, in fr becoming united into a blue- 

 black or reddish drupe, ripening the second year. Sds 1-12, ovate, bony. 

 Cotyledons 2 (in a single species more). Low shrubs or trees, with mostly 

 thin shreddy bark, and with evergreen binate or ternate, free and subulate 

 or adnate and scale-like Ivs; branches and Ivs not 2-ranked. 

 J. Calif ornica Carr, in Rev Hortic sr 4, 3:352 (1854). 



Fruit reddish, dry and sweetish; a shrub or small tree, 20-25 ft hi, 

 conical, with stout spreading branches and thick branchlets; Ivs ternate, 

 short and thick, mostly acute: fr oblong- ovate, 5-7 li long, of 6 or rarely 4 

 scales, usually 1-seeded: sd 4-6 li long, very thick and bony, smooth, often 

 angled or grooved, brown with a whitish 2-3-lobed hilum: cotyledons 4-6. 

 Sacramento to San Diego (Watson, Bot Cal 2:113). 

 Variety Utahensis Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:588. 



Branchlets more slender: fr globose and smaller, 3 or 4 li in diam. 

 Nevada; Arizona; southern Utah; Baja California (Orcutt 830). 

 J. Cerrosianus Kellogg, Cal ac pr 2:37. Hesperian Mr. 1860, f. 



Greene, Pittonia 1:197, 207. Cedros Island. 



Curran, Cal ac b 1:147, states fr is very different from J. Californicus. 



Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:588, states that a specimen in Herb Torrey 

 is J. Californicus, and is so cited as a synonym in Bot Cal 2:113. 

 J. occiden tails Hooker, Fl Bor Am 2:166. Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:590. 



Watson, Bot Cal 2:113. 



Deserts of San Bernardino county, to Oregon and Idaho. Fruit 3-4 li 

 in diam, blue-black, resinous-fleshy, sds 1-3, deeply pitted: cotyledons 2. 

 Mohave desert (Orcutt 253). 



J. andina Xuttall, Sylva3:95 t 110? 

 CUPRESSUS Tournefort ex Linnaeus, Gen ed 1:294 (1737). 



Cypress: evergreen trees, with small scale-like adnate and appressed 

 decussately opp and imbricated Ivs, usually glandular-pitted; branches and 

 Ivs not 2-ranked. The close-grained fragrant and durable wood resembles 

 Juniperus. Fls monoecious. Aments terminal, of few decussately opp 

 scales. Stam fls small; anth-cells 3-5 under each ovate obtuse subpeltate 

 scale; pollen-grains simple. Fertile aments erect on short lateral branchlets 

 of 6-10 very thick peltate valvate scales, becoming a globose or subglobose 

 woody cone, maturing the second year. Ovules num, in several rows at the 

 base of the scales, erect. Sds acutely angled. Cotyledons 2-4. In Central 

 Asia and the Mediterranean region occur 4 or 5 species, 3 or 4 are found in 

 western Mexico, the rest of the known species belonging to California. 

 C. macrocarpa Hartwig, in Hort Soc J 2:187 (1847). 



The Monterey Cypress, a tree becoming 40-70 ft hi, with rough bark, 

 spreading horizontal branches and flattened top, is found near the sea on 

 granite rock from Point Pinos near Monterey southward 4 or 5 miles to 

 Pescadero ranch. It was early introduced into England, and is now widely 

 cultivated, especially in southern California, and forms a characteristic feat- 

 ure of the flora of San Diego, though not native. At Point Pinos "the trees 



