TREES AND SHRUBS 



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3. SABINA. Haller. Juniper. Cedar. Sabina. 



Low but sometimes widely spreading trees with "stringy" or 

 "checked" bark; small scale-like more or less resinous leaves of 

 two forms, those on the older stems short triangular and thickened 

 2 to 4 mm. long, those on young sprouts twice or three times as long, 

 acute to spinulose tipped; and spheroidal berry-like cones with 

 somewhat woody or fleshy scales closely pressed together and com- 

 pletely enclosing the 1 to 3 or 4 seeds. 



Trees of the drier mountain slopes, occasionally high up on 

 some barren peak; all over the state. 



Seeds 3 or usually 4; smaller branches smooth; 

 leaves conspicuously resinous; bark of trunk 

 thick; broken Into irregular quadrangular 

 plates; fruit large, 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, 

 brown and fibrous when mature. 



Seeds 1 or sometimes 2; smaller branches 

 mostly scaly; leaves mostly not resinous; 

 bark of trunk shreddy or stringy. 

 Fruit large, about 15 mm. in diameter; seeds 

 1 or 2. 



Fruit smaller, 10 mm. or usually less in 

 diameter. 



Branchlets slender, drooping; mature 

 fruit small. 6 mm. in diameter, 

 spherical, blue, 2-seeded; leaves 3- 

 ranked. 

 Branchlets rigid, erect, stouter; fruit 

 mostly 1-seeded (sometimes 2-seed- 

 ed in no. 3); leaves 2-ranked. 

 Fruit large, 7 to 10 mm. long, oblong, 

 brown and fibrous . when mature; 

 leaves short and obtuse. 

 Fruit smaller, 5 to 7 mm. long, scarce- 

 ly if at all longer than thick, 

 bluish and fleshy; leaves about 

 twice as long as in the preceding 

 species. 



1. S. pachyphloea. 



2. S. megalocarpa. 



3. S. scopulorum. 



S. utahensis. 



4. S. monosperma. 



