8 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS CALIFORNICA (Carriere). 



Rev. Hort. p. 852 (1854) with fig. 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 167 (1900). 



A small tree, 20 to 40 feet high, with an unsymmetrical trunk, or 

 a shrub with many stout irregular usually contorted stems, forming 

 a broad open head. Bark of trunk thin, divided into long loose thin 

 scales, ashy-grey on the outer surface, and persisting for many years. 

 Leaves usually in threes, closely appressed, short and thick, rounded 

 at the tip, T V to ^ inch long, conspicuously glandular on the back, 

 minutely denticulate on the margin. 



Fruit globose or oval, about } to } inch long, reddish - brown 

 in colour, covered with a thick glaucous bloom ; flesh resinous, 

 containing one or two large pitted seeds. 



Jnniperus californica is the common species of the coast 

 mountains of California, occurring chiefly south of San Francisco. 

 It is also found on the western foothills and on the dry slopes of 

 the Sierra Nevada. This Juniper was introduced about 1853 by 

 Wm. Lobb, who sent seeds to Veitch's nursery at Exeter. It is 

 not now known to be in cultivation in England. 



The illustration is from a photograph kindly sent by Professor 

 Sargent from the Arnold Arboretum. 



