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only slightly grooved apex and its rounded swollen base will distin. | 
guish it from the other with its smaller, acute, brown-tipped seeds 
Since it does not seem possible to place this with any of the already 
described forms, it may be named and characterized as follows: 
Juniperus Knighti, n. sp.—A_ scraggy shrub or small tree, usually 
much branched from the base, 7. ¢., trunkless or breaking up into sf 
Fic. 2.—/Juniperus Knighti Aven N. 
eral subequal trunks also freely branched, branches widely spreading, 
the lowest close to the ground and almost resting upon it, — 
topped, 3-7" high or possibly in places exceeding this: leaves : r 
ranked, closely appressed, of rhomboidal outline, subacute, abou Me 
wide, nearly twice as long, thick, sometimes slightly depressed me 
dorsum, entire or rarely minutely denticulate, neither P . 
glandular, persisting in part on the branches of old trees ® 
somewhat acute or acuminate scales, branches of young trees sll 
smooth or with a few long-acuminate scattered scales la 
whorl of the same at the base of the branchlets ; the branches d thic: 
but not squarrose: peduncle or fruiting branchlet het ily come 
berry-like cones blue-green or copper colored (all aah © ies 
colored if boiled), distinctly marked on the surface by pi 
their several scales, broadly oval, 7-10™" long, dry, eS to the lag 
thin, in dried specimens closely and tenaciously adherent rounded 
single seed: seed ovate, obtuse, slightly grooved ADOT so 
swollen at the base: fruit possibly not maturing fil He Rocks: jo 
—Type specimen, Herb. Univ. of Wyo., no. 309% er 
I, 1897. 
