PINE FAMILY. 



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

 coalescent 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. Californica 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. occidentals 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. Ctfkess. 

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

 those on the ultimate branchlets in four ranks. Flowers monoecious. 

 Staminate cones erect, small, 1£ 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. Macnabiana. 



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



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

 10 ft. high or more; leaves h 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 H 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., 

 F. M. Anderson, 1900. First collected in 1854, by Hurray 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 \ line long; cones clustered, short" pedunculate, 

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

 small, low umbo; seeds 1£ to 2 lines long, black. 



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