JUNIFERUS VIRGINIANA, L. 27 



county) ; found also in Hart's location in the White mountain 

 region ; Vermont, not abundant ; occurs here and there on 

 hills at levels less than 1000 feet ; frequent in the Champlain 

 and lower Connecticut valleys ; Massachusetts, west and 

 center occasional, eastward common ; Rhode Island and Con- 

 necticut, common. 



South to Florida ; west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian 

 Territory. 



Habit. A medium-sized tree, 25-40 feet high, with a 

 trunk diameter of 8-20 inches, attaining much greater dimen- 

 sions southward ; extremely variable in outline ; the lower 

 branches usually nearly horizontal, the upper ascending ; head 

 when young very regular, narrow-based, close and conical; 

 in old trees frequently rather open, wide-spreading, ragged, 

 roundish or flattened. In very exposed situations, especially 

 along the seacoast, the trunk sometimes rises a foot or two 

 and then develops horizontally, forming a curiously contorted 

 lateral head. Under such conditions it occasionally becomes 

 a dwarf tree 2-3 feet high, with wide-spreading branches 

 and a very dense dome ; spray close, foliage a sombre green, 

 sometimes tinged with a rusty brownish-red ; wood pale red, 

 aromatic. 



Bark. Bark of trunk light reddish-brown, fibrous, shred- 

 ding off, now and then, in long strips, exposing the smooth 

 brown inner bark ; season's shoots green. 



Winter Buds and Leaves. Leaf -buds naked, minute. Leaves 

 dull green or brownish-red, of two kinds : 



1. Scale-like, mostly opposite, each pair overlapping the 

 pair above, 4-ranked, ovate, acute, sometimes bristle-tipped, 

 more or less convex, obscurely glandular. 



2. Scattered, not overlapping, narrowly lanceolate or needle- 

 shaped, sharp-pointed, spreading. The second form is more 

 common in young trees, sometimes comprising all the foliage, 

 but is often found on trees of all ages, sometimes aggregated 

 in dense masses. 



Inflorescence. Early May. Flowers terminating short 

 branches, sterile and fertile, more commonly on separate trees, 



