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GRAMINEAE. 



3. 



C pisifera.. 



C. pisifera aurea. 



C. thyoides. 



C. thyoides glauca. 



C. thyoides variegata. 



C. pisifera filifera. 



C. thyoides ericoides. 



2. Leaves white-lined beneath, somewhat flattened. 

 Leaves without white lines. 4. 



3. Green. 

 Yellow. 



4. Green. 

 Glaucous. 

 Partly yellow. 



5. Branchlets long and slender. 

 Branchlets not elongated. 6. 



6. Dense and heath-like. 

 Not heath-like. 7. 



7. Leaves short, little spreading. 8. 



Leaves widely spreading. C. pisifera squarrosa. 



8. Green. C. pisifera plumosa. 

 White-tipped. C. pisifera plumosa argentea, 

 Yellow, when young. C. pisifera plumosa aurea. 



JUNIPERUS. Juniper. Savin. Red Cedar. 

 Evergreen shrubs or trees with brown or red ductless wood 

 without resin-passages ; slender twigs ultimately falling with 

 their small scale- or dagger-like opposite or whorled leaves. in 

 some species spreading on young or abnormal growth and closely 

 appressed on characteristic plants ; small usually cone- or catkin- 

 like monoecious naked flowers ; and small drupe- or berry-like 

 few-seeded fruit. 



1. Leaves in whorls of three. (Juniper). J. communis. 

 Leaves opposite. 2. 



2. Fruits on straight stalks. 3. 



Fruits on curved stalks. (Savin). J. sabina. 



3. Fruit several-seeded. J. chinensis. 

 Fruit i- or 2-seeded. (Red Cedar). J. virginiana. 



Subdivision ANGIOSPERMAE. Enclosed-Seed Plants. 

 Class MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. "Endogens." 



Family GRAMINEAE. Grass Family. 



A very large widespread and highly important family of 

 rarely woody plants, furnishing the principal grains and sugar of 



