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7. SABINA. Ilaller. The Cedars. 



Monoecious or dioecious, strong scented trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves scale-like or sometimes awl-shaped, appressed to the 

 stem, not spreading- on mature branches, each with a gland 

 on the back. Flowers and fruit terminal. Cone berry-like. 



Fruit reddish brown, Irage with 1-12 seeds. 



Seeds usually 4 1 S. pachyphlaea. 



Seeds 4-12 2 S. flaccida. 



Seeds 1-2 3 S. Pinchoti. 



Fruit blue or blue-black, small. 

 Leaves denticulate. 



Fruit globose or oblong, seeds usually 1, rarely 



2, branchlets slender 5 S. monosperma. 



Fruit globose, seeds 1-4, leaves keeled and 



glandular 6 S. sabinoides. 



Leaves entire. 



Fruit subglobose }' to 1/3' long, seeds 1-4, 

 branchlets stout, not pendulous or only 



slightly so, often erect 7 S. Virginiana. 



Fruit subglobose %' in diameter, seeds 



usually 2, branches pendulous 8 S. barbadensis. 



Fruit subglobose ripening the second season, 

 l/9'-l/3' in diameter; seeds usually 2, 

 branchlets rigid, often erect 9 S. scopulorum. 



1. Sabinia pachyphlaea Torr. Juniper. Thick-barked 

 Juniper. Mountain Cedar. 



A tree reaching a maximum height of 50 to 60 feet and 

 diameter of 3-5 feet, with long branches and thick, scaly, red- 

 brown bark divided into -i sided plates. Leaves in pairs 

 about % inch long, appressed, keeled and glandular, bluish 

 L'Te<-;i. Fruit globose about % inch long, reddish brown, and 

 contains a sweet mealy flesh. 



At altitudes of 4000 to 6000 feet from Colorado to Nevada, 

 Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Tejxas. In Texas it as 

 r<m ud only in the western part of the state. 



The wood is sofe and brittle and is not used extensively. 

 The fruit is used for food by the Indians. 



2. Sabinia flaccida Schlecht. Drooping Juniper. A tree 

 reaching a height of 30 or often only a shrub. The branches 

 are wide spreading, and the long drooping branchlets give 

 the tree a characteristic appearance. Leaves about y$' long, 



