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JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALS (W. J. Hooker). 



Fl. Bor. Amer. II. p. 166 (1840). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 178 (1900). 



Tree* of Great Britain ami Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1399 (1912). 



A tree attaining in North America a height of "20 to 60 feet, with 

 a tall straight stem, 9 feet in girth. Bark scaly, about h inch 

 thick, bright cinnamon-red. Ultimate branchlets stout. Leaves 

 arranged in six ranks, three in a whorl, closely appressed, acute or 

 acuminate, grey -green, $ inch long, rounded, and conspicuously 

 glandular on the back. 



Fruit sub-globose or oblong, \ to J inch long, bluish-black, with 

 a glaucous bloom ; flesh thin and dry, tilled with large resin-glands. 

 Seeds, two or three, ovate, acute, deeply grooved or pitted on the 

 back, about J inch long. 



Junipems occidentalis occurs on the mountain slopes and high 

 prairies in Western North America from Washington and Idaho, also 

 up to 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, 

 where it attains immense age and a large girth. It is in cultivation 

 at Dawyck, Peeblesshire. 



The illustration is from a photograph taken at the Arnold 

 Arboretum, and kindly sent by Professor Sargent. 



