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their skin is tough, and only slighly marked at the top by the tips of 

 the female flower scales. The flesh is scanty, dry. and contains from 2 to 3 

 bony, pitted and grooved seeds, about which are large resin-cells (fig. 71, a). 

 These impart a sweetish pungent-aromatic taste to the berries. Seed-leaves 2, 

 needle-like, sharp-pointed, and about an inch long. Seedling leaves which follow 



Fig. 71. — Juniperus occidental is: a, seed. 



these are similar in form, but much shorter, spreading in groups of three at close 

 intervals. These leaves grow gradually shorter and closer in their arrangement 

 until about the third or fourth year, when a few twigs bear short leaves of adult 

 form. 



