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lower edge of tJie scale. Fertile cones ovoid, of 3 to 6 succulent, 

 coalescont scales, eacH bearing one ovule, in fruit becoming berry-like, 

 bluish-black or reddish with white bloom, ripening the second year. 

 (Said to mean youth-renewing, from its evergreen appearance.) 



1. J. Callfornica Carr. California Juniper. Usually a large 

 shrub, 6 to 20 ft. high; leaves crowded on the ultimate branches, 

 scale-like and acute, occasionally free and subulate, with a dorsal, 

 glandular pit toward the base; berries reddish or brownish, oblong- 

 ovate, 4 to 5 lines long, of four to six reduced scales; seed usually 

 only one, brown, 3 to 4 lines long, with a thick, smooth, bony shell; 

 cotyledons 4 to 6. 



Moraga Pass, Mt. Diablo and southward; also in the Sierras. No 

 definite station has ever been reported from the North Coast Kanges. 

 Heart-wood reddish brown, sap-wood clear white. 



J. occiDENTALis Hook., Sierra Juniper, is at high elevations (6,000 

 to 10,000 ft.) in the Sierras; the fruit is smaller and blue-black; 

 cotyledons 2. 



7. CUPRESSUS Tourn. Cypress. 

 Shrubs or trees with the leaves small, scale-like and appressed, 

 those on the ultimate hranchlets in four ranks. Flowei-s moncecious. 

 Staminate cones erect, small, IJ to 2 lines long; anthers borne on the 

 under side of the sub-peltate scales, 3 to 5 to each scale. Pistillate 

 cones erect, upon short lateral branchlets, of 6 to 10 very thick, 

 roundish and peltate scales fitting closely together and forming in 

 fruit a globose or sub-globose ligneous cone, which matures the 

 second year. Ovules numerous, in several rows at the base of the 

 scales, erect. Seeds acutely angled or margined. Cotyledons 2 to 4. 



Scales with strong conical umbos; leaves with a conspicuous dorsal pit .... 



1. C. MaenabULTiu. 

 Scales with small low umbos; leaves without dorsal pits . .2. C. Goveniann. 



1. C. Macnablana Murr. McNab Cypress. Shrub or tree 5 to 

 10 ft. high or more; leaves J line long, with a conspicuous, usually 

 resin-bearing pit or white gland on the back toward the apex, often 

 slightly glaucous; cones 6 to 8 lines in diameter, globose, clustered, 

 short-peduncled; scales 6 to 8, with strong conical umbos, the upper- 



' most very prominent or horn-like and incurved; seeds IJ or mostly 2 

 lines long, brown. 



Common in the hill country of eastern Napa Co. from Samuel's 

 Springs to Pope Valley and northward into Lake Co. Shasta Co., 

 P. M. Anderson, 1900. First collected in 1854, by Murray and 

 Beardsley, near Mt. Shasta; named in honor of James McNab, of the 

 Koyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Young cones reddish-brown. 



2. C. Goveniana Gordon. Gowen Cypress. A shrub or small 

 tree, 6 to 15 ft. high; leaves without dorsal pits, rarely with lateral 

 depressions, about J line long; cones clustered, short pedunculate, 

 globose, about 10 lines in diameter; scales 6, or mostly 8, with a very 

 small low umbo; seeds IJ to 2 lines long, black. 



