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lobed foliaceous bracts long-exserted, usually reflexed ; cones li-4' long, 1-1 J' 

 wide, somewhat clustered, pendulous, obtusish, scales concave, rounded, 

 entire, pubescent; bracts long-exserted, bifid, the acuminate suberose-dentate 

 lobes shorter than the cuspidate midnerve; seed 3" long, acutely margined, a 

 little shorter than the oblong obtuse wing. — Bark rather thin, ash or reddish- 

 gray ; wood coarse-grained, but tough and hard. From Washington Territory 

 to Southern Cahfornia, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and New 

 Mexico. In the Uintas ; 7-9,000 feet altitude; known as "Bear River" or 

 "Swamp Pine." (1,118.) 



LiBOCEDEUs^ DECUERENS, Torr. DC. Prodr. 16. 2. 456. Tall, with 

 spreading branches and green flattened distichous alternate glabrous branch- 

 lets ; leaves 1-5" long, adnate, the ovate sharp-mucronate apex only free, 

 the marginal leaves scarcely longer ; sterile aments 2-2i" long, oval, erect, 

 anthers 3, with rounded subentire crests ; cones 8-12" long, erect or pendent, 

 ovate-oblong, cinnamon-color ; scales 6, the lower usually very much shorter, 

 ovate or oblong, rounded at the apex, the middle pair 3-5" wide, oblong, con- 

 vex, equaling the narrowly linear upper ones ; seed 4-6" long, oblong, wings 

 often confluent, very narrow on the outer margin, obtuse, equaling the scales. — 

 California and Southern Oregon, especially in the Sierras. Washoe Moun- 

 tains, above Carson City, Nevada ; 7,000 feet altitude. (1,119.) 



JUNIPEEUS COMMUNIS, L., Var. ALPINA, L. From Maine and the Great 

 Lakes throughout Northern America to the Arctic Ocean and Greenland; 

 southward in the mountains to Washington Territory and Colorado. East 

 Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 9-10,000 feet altitude. As is often the case 

 the leaves appear decurrent on the stem below the articulation, bearing con- 

 spicuous vesicles filled with resin. (r,120.) 



JuNiPEEUS ViEGiNiANA, L. From Florida to California, and northward 

 to Canada, the Saskatchewan and Oregon. Rare in the East Humboldt 



' LIBOCEDEUS, Endl. Flowers monojcious on different branches, sometimes dioecious. Aments 

 solitary, terminal ; sterile ones cylindrio, or ovate and subtetragonal. Stamens decussately opposite, 

 ■with subpeltate crests, and each with 3-4 longitudinally dehiscent anthers on the dorsal side. Fertile 

 aments bracteate, with 4-6 decussately opposite erect scales, the lower pair usually sterUe, the third when 

 present connate into a longitudinal septum. Ovules 2, flask-shaped. Cone ripening the first year; scales 

 sub woody, mucronate below the apex, erect, at length spreading. Seeds in pairs or solitary, erect, oblong, 

 the membranous wing nearly equaling the scales, inequilateral. Embryo axial and as long as the fleshy 

 albumen; cotyledons 2; radicle cylindric, superior. — Evergreens, with smooth bark and light-colored 

 close-grained wood ; branches scattered ; leaves decussately opposite, imbricated by fours and scale-like, 

 dissimilar, the facial ones smaller, flat and appressed, often glandulose, the marginal ones bract-like and 

 oarinate, glandless. 



