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CREEPING JUNIPER. Var. alpina, Engelm. 



A prostrate form of the above that reaches the 

 highest peaks of Western ranges. Leaves one- half 

 inch long, in two ranks, acute; berries small, dark 

 blue, fleshy. 



Sub Genus 2, SABINA 



SAVIN JUNIPERS. 



Flowers terminal; on short, lateral branchlets; 

 leaves ternate (or opposite) of two forms, mostly 

 scale- like and closely appressed, often glandular 

 pitted. Berries mostly very small and numerous. 



Fourteen Species; 2 in Western N. America: 



No. 2 California Juniper J.Californica, Carriers. 



A shrub much divided from the root; in the Coast 

 Kanges to San Bernardino Mountains, and frequent 

 in the plains of Southern California; berries large, the 

 size of peas, reddish when ripe, dry and sweetish; 

 leaves ternate. 



GREAT BASIN JUNIPER. Var. (a) Utahcnsis, Engelm. 



On the eastern slopes of the Sierra and on the 

 mountains of Nevada and Utah, confined to the 

 Great Basin region. Berries small; branches slender; 

 leaves ternate. 



STONE-SEED JUNIPER. Var. (b) osteosperma, Engelm. 



Rare on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Lower 

 California. 



