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The Junipers 



winter or early spring. The staminatc arc 3 to 6 mm. long, consisting of 18 to 

 24 stamens, usually in whorls of 3; their connectives are broader than long and 

 denticulate. The j)istillate flowers consist of several sessile ovaries subtended by 

 about 6 spreading sharp-pointed scales. The fruit, which matures in the autumn 

 of the second year after fertilization, is globular or oblong, 12 to 20 mm. long, 

 almost smooth, reddish brown, with a glaucous bloom; its flesh is lirm, dry, and 

 sweet. Seeds i or sometimes 2, ovoid, rather large, sharp-pointed, angled, and 

 somewhat flattened on the inner side when there are 2 in a fruit; they are light 

 brown, and shining above, yellow and dull toward the base. 



The wood of the California juniper is soft, close-grained, and light reddish 

 brown; its specific gravity is about 0.63. It is ver)' durable and is used for fencing 

 and for fuel. The fruit is used by the Indians of its region as food, either fresh, or 

 dried and ground into meal and baked. 



3. PIXCHOT'S JUNIPER Juniperus Pinchoti Sudworth 



This very recently described Juniper occurs in thin, dr}- soil of flat grassy bot- 

 toms in the Paloduro Canon of Briscoe, Randal, and Armstrong counties, Texas, 



where it attains a height of 6 meters with 

 a trunk diameter of 1.25 dm. 



The trunk is ver\^ short; usually there 

 are several trunks from an old fire-killed 

 stump. The bark is thin, shallowly fissured 

 into narrow, confluent, persistent scales of 

 an ashy gray color; the inner bark is dull 

 brown. The twigs are rather slender, yel- 

 lowish brown, finally gray and somewhat 

 scaly. The leaves are yellowish green, 

 usually in 3's, but often in 2's, closely 

 appressed, about 2 mm. long, sharply stiff- 

 pointed, entire on the margin, thickened, 

 keeled, and with a conspicuous depressed 

 gland on the back; on young or veiy vigor- 

 ous twigs they are spreading at the very 

 sharp-pointed apex, linear- lanceolate, 6 to 12 

 mm. long, and glandular on the back. The 

 fruit, ripening probably in the second sea- 

 son, is globose or slightly oblong, about 8 

 mm. long, nearly smooth, distinctly red or 

 copper-colored with little or no bloom; its 

 flesh is thick, dry, and sweetish, seeds i or 

 2, broadly ovoid, 4 or 5 mm. long, grooved, 

 brown and shining toward the sharp-pointed apex. 



Pinchot's Juniper. 



