Wyoming Experiment Station. 



ally used for fuel, is particularly valuable for posts, as it 

 resists decay to a remarkable degree even when in con- 

 tact with the soil. Its habit, its numerous small, blue 

 berries," which have a whitish bloom, and its slender twigs 

 will serve to separate it from the next. 



(2) DESERT JUNIPER. 



(Jiiniperits KnigJiti Aven Nelson) 



"The century-living crow, 



Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died 

 Among their branches." Bryant. 



Description. Branched from the base, rarely with a single trunk, usu- 

 ally a rounded, bushy clump of sub-equal trunks and-spreading branches, 10 to 

 30 feet high: leaves three-ranked, thick, about 1-12 inch long; berry blue-green 

 or copper-colored, marked on the surface, by more or less projecting points: 

 seed single (rarely two), large, covered by the dry pulp. 



So far as the distribution of this tree is known it is 

 confined to the south-central and the southwestern part of 



the state. It occurs in 

 those desert portions, 

 like the Red Desert, 

 from which all other 

 trees are absent. Even 

 here it occurs only at 

 intervals on the red 

 sandstone hills and 

 bluffs as scattering in- 

 dividuals or sometimes 



forming 



considerable 

 thickets. It will be 

 known by its. bushy 

 habit, its thick twigs 



XVIII. Desert Juniper. The tip of a branch, showing a yjfj {<; large rOU"h- 



berries. te ' 



ened, copper - colored 



berries. In the localities wh'ere it occurs it furnishes 

 fence posts and fuel. " 



