^'"i""^''''^"'- CONIFERyE. -, -, „ 



1. J. communis Linn. A shrub or small troo, with sproa.lin.' or pendulous 

 hranchcs : Icav.s r.,ul, n.oro or less spreaclin-s T. to !) lines lon^: iViIit laK e 3 

 .nes m dia.ne er or n.oro, 1 - 3-seedcd. _ Van alpina, Gaud? Low an I d urn- 

 bent or prostrate : leaves shorter (2 to 4 lines long) and less spreadin-r 



Brewer) and in tl.e Northern Coast Ilan-es (Del Nort ■ ("o v // ,, / \ "^ ^''""^ ^ '?''' 



Maine, nn.l is scarcely n.ore than a rechu^] finn of "he si'dS: *''^' "' "'" '^ '^^''""'^ '"^ 



-.v * Amevfs tcnnhnl on short lateral hraiwhlets : haves trrnate (or opposite) 



oftu'o forms, mostbjadnatc and scale-Uke, doseh, oppressed and crowded upon 



mluZT-^^^^^^ «««/«/«,;«//,/ more distant, free and 



■^ Fruit reddish, dry and sweetish. 

 2. J Californica, Carr. A shrub or small tree (sometimes 20 to 35 feet hi'rh) 

 corneal with stout spreading branches and thick branchlets : leaves ternate, shori 

 and hick, mostly acute : fruit oblong-ovate, 5 to 7 lines long, of G or rarelv 4 scales 

 usually 1-seeded : seed 4 to G lines long, very thick and bon^ smooth, often anS 

 or grooved, brown with a whitish 2-3-lobe<l hilum : cotyledons 4 to G - Kev 

 lort. Ill 3o2; Lngelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis, iii. 588. J. tetragona, var. osteo- 

 spenna, lorr. Pac.f. K. ]Jep. iv. 141. J. Cerrosianus, Kellogg, Proc Calif Acad 

 H. 37. ./. orcidentalis, Parlatore, DC. Prodr. xvi^. 489, in part 



.,..1?!; Y*^^^'^^'^' ^'"^'r'"- '• '• ^^^^'i^-l^Jets more slender: fruit globose and 

 smaller, 3 or 4 hues m diameter.-./, occidentalis, Watson, Eot. Kincr Exn 336 

 mainly. ° -^a^'. uuu, 



Tlie tyi)i<'al form is found cliiofly in flip Coast Kano-es from tlic Snnin.pntrv t« «.„ n- xi 



vanety is fe-iuont from the Sieri Nevada ^non^^l^Z: S:\&:ZZ.l^Z£:^^ 

 Uah. An on^n.al Iruitin. specinu-n of J. andlna, Nutt, in herb. Gray, iKdon's he^ s.^^^^ 

 mens coilec'te,! by Dr. E. Palmer in Guadalupe Island have large globose bhnshiVuit ^ 



■^ Fruit smaller, hlue-black, rcsinous-feshij. 

 3. J occidentalis, Hook. IMuch resembling the variety of the last species 

 from which It ,s distinguished chiefly by the blue and resinous fruit, whieh ir3 «; 

 4 lines in diameter : seeds 1 to 3, deeply pitted : cotyledons 2. - Fl. ]]or..Am. ii. 

 IGG ; Lngelm. 1. c. 590. J. amlina, Nutt. Sylva, iii. 95, t. 110] 

 ^^ Oregon, Idaho, and southward in the Sierra Nevada, at a ra'thcr higher elevation than the 



2. CUPRESSUS, Tourn. Cypress. 

 Flowers mona^cious. Aments terminal, of few <lecussately opposite scales Starai- 

 nate flowers small; anther-cells 3 to 5 under each ovate obtuse subpeltate scale- 

 pollen-grains simple. Fertile aments erect on short lateral branchlets, of 6 to 10 

 very thick peltate valvate scales, becoming a globose or subglobose woody cone, 

 maturing the second year. Ovules numerous, in several rows at the base of the 

 scales, erect. Seeds acutely angled. Cotyledons 2 to 4. — Evergreen trees, with 

 small scale-like aduate and appressed decussately opposite and imbricated leaves, 

 usually glandular-pitted ; branches and leaves not 2-ranked. 



in AnleH,^^ n.P "iV,,^ •' ^ '•«"''? T I^'l^ '" ^^'"*"^ ^"'•'^ """^ ^^'^ ^leditcranean region, while 

 graltaluiduSble. ■"'"■ '"" '''" "'"* "^ •^'"">"^'-'". being close-grained, fra- 



1. C. macrocarpa, Hartw. A tree (l)ecoming 40 to 70 feet high), with rou"h 

 bark, spreading horizontal branches, and flattened top ; the branches with dark ^xly 

 and somewhat rugose bark ; branchlets rather stout : leaves bright green, ncuri.<*h, 



