Pine Family 7 



4. LIBOCEDBUS Endl. INCENSE CEDAR. 



Evergreen aromatic trees with thin fibrous bark and 

 scattered flattened branches. Leaves scale-like adnate 

 and imbricate in 4 rows, oblong, with free acute tips, 

 somewhat dimorphous. Staminate cones of 12-16 sub- 

 peltate broadly ovate pointed scales, bearing usually 

 4 pollen-sacs. Pistillate cones composed of 4-6 small 

 coriaceous valvate scales, only the middle pair fertile ; 

 ovules 2. Mature cones oblong, scales oblong ; seeds 

 unequally 2-winged, maturing the first year. 



1. L. decurrens Torr. Mostly a rather small tree with bright 

 cinnamon-red bark and spreading branches; leaves pale green, 

 4-8 mm. long, the lateral ones without glands, nearly covering the 

 flattened, obscurely pitted inner ones; staminate cones oblong- 

 ovate, 5-6 mm. long; fruiting cones 2 cm. long and about 8 mm. 

 thick; scales with short somewhat recurved mucro; seeds ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, the narrow outer wing scarcely 

 longer, the inner broader and nearly equaling the scale. 



Frequent in the coniferous forests of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, 

 San Jacinto and Cuyamaca Mountains. 



5. JUNIPEBUS L. JUNIPER. 



Low dioecious or monoecious shrubs or trees, with 

 mostly thin shredded bark and evergreen binate or ter- 

 nate, free and subulate or adnate and scale-like leaves, 

 not 2-ranked. Cones small solitary axillary or terminal 

 upon short lateral branchlets ; scales few, decussately 

 binate or ternate. Staminate cones oblong-ovate ; an- 

 ther-cells 48 under each shield-shaped scale. Pistillate 

 cone of 2 or 3 series of fleshy scales, with 2 erect ovules to 

 each scale, becoming united into a blue-black or reddish 

 drupe in fruit and ripening the second year. Seeds 1-12, 

 bony ; cotyledons usually 2, rarely 4-6. 



1. J. Californica Carr. Shrub usually much branched, 

 with stout, spreading branches and branchlets; leaves ternate, 



