So WEST-AMERICAN 



No. 3 Western Juniper - /. octidentalis, Hooker. 



Small trees on the mountains from Eastern Wash- 

 ington and Oregon along the high ridges of the Cali- 

 fornia Sierra to the San Bernardino Mountains, at 

 elevations of 7,000 to 10,000 feet. Berries small, 

 blue-black, fleshy and resinous; timber very valuable 

 for fence-posts, etc. 



VARIETIES OF WESTERN JUNIPER. 

 ONE-SEEDED JUNIPER. Var. (a) monosperma, Engelm. 

 A form with single, brown seeds. Near the San 

 Francisco Mountains, Northern Arizona, and north- 

 .wnrd to Colorado. 



DOUBLE-SEEDED JUNIPER. Var. (6) conjugens, Engelm. 



Berries mostly two-seeded, flattened, and emargi- 

 nate; small trees on limestone hills near El Paso, 

 Western Texas. ^ 



(This and the i^b next variej^s are not strictly in 

 our Northwestern region, but included to complete 

 the history of this polymorphous species.) 



NAKED-SEEDED JUNIPER. Var. (c) gymnocarpa. n. var. 

 Small round-headed Junipers, abundant on the 

 Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. M.; with 

 slender branchlets and small, blue-black, abundant 

 berries, the solitary seed, half-exposed at apex may 

 receive the above name. 



