So WEST-AMERICAN 



No. 3 Western Juniper - J. occidentals, 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- 

 ward 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 two next varieties 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. 



