S6 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



this group should always be called Juniper. Of the 

 twelve tree-like Junipers in the United States, Wyoming- 

 has two, both of which have recently been described as 

 new. One of these has been known for years as occurring 

 here, but has been supposed to be the same as the Red 

 Juniper of the eastern states. It was only in 1897 that 

 the distinctions between the two were made out, in part 

 from a series of specimens prepared at the University of 

 Wyoming for Dr. Sargent, Director of Arnold Arboretum. 

 It now bears the name first given below. The other spe- 

 cies, the second given below, seems to have been over- 

 looked until named and described by the writer in 1898. 

 This does not mean that it is particularly scarce in its lo- 

 cality but only that, though observed by many, it had 

 been assumed, as with the other, to be one of the well 

 known species. 



Though the Junipers are included in the cone-bearers 

 yet the cone will hardly be recognized as such. The 

 scales are small, few and fleshy and form a small globose 

 berry instead of the ordinary cone. This, with the fact 

 that the leaves* are scarcely more than short, fleshy 

 scales, will enable anyone to at once recognize these 

 evergreen trees, our two species of which it will not be 

 hard to separate. 



(1) ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUNIPER. 



(Junipertts scopulorum Sargent). 



''Will these moss'd trees, 



That have outliv'd the e.tgle, page thy heels, 

 And skip when thou point'st out? " Shakespeare. 



Description. Leaves in pairs, very short, nearly clothing the branch- 

 lets: berries very numerous, not maturing until the close of the second season, 

 light green when young, when mature blue with a whitish bloom. 



This species is found at intervals throughout the 



*In very young plants the leaves are usually longer, needle or awl shaped, sometimes 

 :inch in length. 



