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believed to be quite so long-lived as. western juniper. The berries 
also show another point of difference, those of the California juniper 
being light red-brown, rather than the bluish-black, white-coated © 
fruit of the other species, and with a loose, thin, and papery skin 
very unlke the tough, thick covering of western juniper cones. 
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FicuRE 13.—Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) 
Other conifers occur in California in comparatively limited areas. 
There is the Monterey cypress (fig. 13), for instance, with its 
gnarled and twisted, moss-hung grotesqueries; the Gowen cypress, 
a finer foliaged but smaller tree which grows along the coast in 
scattered locations from Mendocino County to San Diego (it includes 
the dwarf or pygmy cypress, found only on the coast barrens of 
Mendocino County); and the Macnab cypress, found in Shasta 
County and the Siskiyous and south to Napa County, in isolated 
groups. To most of us there is little difference between these 
