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covering great areas of low rolling limestone hills with nearly pure forests of small bushy 

 trees. 



Often cultivated, in several forms, in the northern and eastern states as an ornamental 

 tree and occasionally in the gardens of western and central Europe. 



11. Juniperus lucayana Britt. Red Cedar. 

 Juniperus barbadensis Sarg. not L. 



Leaves usually opposite, narrow, acute, or gradually narrowed above the middle and 

 acuminate, marked on the back by conspicuous oblong glands. Flowers opening in early 

 March: male elongated, f to nearly j' long, with 10 or 12 stamens, their connectives 

 rounded, entire, and bearing usually 3 pollen-sacs : female with scales gradually narrowed 

 above the middle, acute at apex, and obliterated from the ripe fruit. Fruit subglobose 

 to short-oblong, dark blue, covered when ripe with a glaucous bloom, about ^' in diameter, 

 with a thin skin, sweet resinous flesh, and 1 or 2 seeds; seeds acute, prominently ridged. 



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A tree, sometimes 50 high, with a trunk occasionally 2 in diameter, small branches 

 erect when the tree is crowded in the forest, spreading when it has grown in open ground 

 and forming a broad flat-topped head often 30 or 40 in diameter, long thin secondary 

 branches erect at the top of the tree and pendulous below, and pendulous branchlets 

 about -^ in diameter, becoming light red-brown or ashy gray at the end of four or five 

 years after the disappearance of the leaves. Bark thin, light red-brown, separating into 

 long thin scales. Wood light, close, straight-grained, fragrant, dull red; formerly exclu- 

 sively used in the manufacture of the best lead pencils. 



Distribution. Inundated river swamps from southern Georgia, southward to the shores 

 of the Indian River, Florida, and on the west coast of Florida from the northern shores 

 of Charlotte Harbor to the valley of the Apalachicola River, often forming great thickets 

 under the shade of larger trees; along streams and creeks in low woods near Houston, Harris 

 County, and Milano, Milano County, Texas (E. J. Palmer} ; common in the Bahamas, San 

 Domingo, eastern Cuba, and on the mountains of Jamaica and Antigua. 



Often planted for the decoration of squares and cemeteries in the cities and towns in 

 the neighborhood of the coast from Florida to western Louisiana, and now often natural- 

 ized beyond the limits of its natural range on the Gulf coast; occasionally cultivated in 

 the temperate countries of Europe, and in cultivation the most beautiful of the Junipers. 



