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rating irregularly into many loose papery persistent scales. Wood hard, close-grained, 

 very durable in contact with the soil, light brown, with pale sapwood. In northern Europe 

 the sweet aromatic fruit of this tree is used in large quantities to impart its peculiar flavor 

 to gin; occasionally employed in medicine. 



Distribution. Occasionally arborescent in New England, eastern Pennsylvania, and on 

 the high mountains of North Carolina; the var. depressa, common in poor rocky soil, 

 Newfoundland to southern New England, and to the shores of the Great Lakes and north- 

 westward; the var. montana from the coast of Greenland to northern New England, on 

 the high Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina, and to northern Nebraska, along the 

 Rocky Mountains from Alberta to western Texas, and on the Pacific coast from Alaska, 

 southward along mountain ranges to the high Sierras of central California, extending 

 eastward to the mountains of eastern Washington and Oregon, and on the high peaks of 

 northern Arizona up to altitudes of 10,000-! 1,500 (P. Lowell); the var. Jackii on the 

 j coast mountains from northern California to Vancouver Island; in the Old World widely 

 | distributed in many forms through all the northern hemisphere from arctic Asia and Eu- 

 j rope to Japan, the Himalayas and the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin. 



Often planted, especially in several of its pyramidal and dwarf forms, in the eastern 

 United States and in the countries of western, central, and northern Europe. 



2. Juniperus Pinchotii Sudw. 



Leaves ternate, obtusely pointed, rounded and glandular-pitted on the back, T \' long, 

 dark yellow-green, turning light red-brown before falling; on vigorous shoots and seedling 



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plants linear-lanceolate, thin, acuminate, eglandular, \'-\' in length. Fruit ripening in 

 one season, subglobose, bright red, \' in diameter, with a thin skin and thick dry mealy res- 

 inous flesh and 1 seed; seed ovoid, bluntly pointed, deeply grooved, irregularly marked by 

 the usually two-lobed hilum, \'-\' long and 2 cotyledons. 



A tree rarely 20 feet high, with a trunk 1 foot in diameter, stout wide-spreading branches 

 forming an open irregular head and thick branchlets covered with dark gray-brown scaly 

 bark, their ultimate divisions about ^ in diameter; more often a shrub with several stems 

 1 to 12 tall. Bark thin, light brown, separating into long narrow persistent scales. 



Distribution. Dry rocky slopes and the rocky sides of canons, Panhandle of western 



