JUNIPERUS Tournefort ex Linnaeus, Syst ed 1 (1735). 



Juniper. A genus of the northern hemisphere, including some 20 old 

 world species and 10 American. The wood is fine-grained, not resinous, 

 exceedingly durable, the heart-wood usually reddish and more or less frag- 

 rant. Fls dioecious or sometimes monoecious, the small solitary aments 

 axillary, or terminal upon short lateral branchlets; scales few and (like the 

 lvs) decussately binate or ternate. Stam fls oblong-ovate; anth-cells 4-8 

 under each shield-shaped scale. Fertile ament of 2 or 3 series of fleshy 

 scales, with 2 erect ovules to each scale, in fr becoming united into a blue- 

 black or reddish drupe, ripening the second year. Sds 1-12, ovate, bony. 

 Cotyledons 2 (in a single species more). Low shrubs or trees, with mostly 

 thin shreddy bark, and with evergreen binate or ternate, free and subulate 

 or adnate and scale-like lvs; branches and lvs not 2-ranked. 



J. Calif ornica Carr, in Rev Hortic sr 4, 3:352 (1854). 



Fruit reddish, dry and sweetish; a shrub or small tree, 20-25 ft hi, 

 conical, with stout spreading branches and thick branchlets; lvs ternate, 

 short and thick, mostly acute: fr oblong- ovate, 5-7 li long, of 6 or rarely 4 

 scales, usually 1-seeded: sd 4-6 li long, very thick and bony, smooth, often 

 angled or grooved, brown with a whitish 2-3-lobed hilum: cotyledons 4-6. 

 Sacramento to San Diego (Watson, Bot Cal 2:113). 

 Variety Utahensis Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:588. 



Branchlets more slender: fr globose and smaller, 3 or 4 li in diam. 

 Nevada; Arizona; southern Utah; Baja California (Orcutt 830). 

 J. Cerrosianus Kellogg, Cal ac pr 2:37. Hesperian Mr. 1860, f. 



Greene, Pittonia 1:197, 207. Cedros Island. 



Curran, Cal ac b 1:147, states fr is very different from J. Californicus. 



Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:588, states that a specimen in Herb Torrey 

 is J. Californicus, and is so cited as a synonym in Bot Cal 2:113. 

 J. occidental is Hooker, Fl Bor Am 2:166. Engelmann, St Louis ac tr 3:590. 



Watson, Bot Cal 2:113. 



Deserts of San Bernardino county, to Oregon and Idaho. Fruit 3-4 li 

 in diam, blue-black, resinous-fleshy, sds 1-3, deeply pitted: cotyledons 2. 

 Mohave desert (Orcutt 253). 



J. andina Nuttall, Sylva3:95 t 110? 

 CUPRESSUS Tournefort ex Linnaeus, Gen ed 1:294 (1737). 



Cypress: evergreen trees, with small scale-like adnate and appressed 

 decussately opp and imbricated lvs, usually glandular-pitted; branches and 

 lvs not 2-ranked. The close-grained fragrant and durable wood resembles 

 Juniperus. Fls monoecious. Aments terminal, of few decussately opp 

 scales. Stam fls small; anth-cells 3-5 under each ovate obtuse subpeltate 

 scale; pollen-grains simple. Fertile aments erect on short lateral branchlets 

 of 6-10 very thick peltate valvate scales, becoming a globose or subglobose 

 woody cone, maturing the second year. Ovules num, in several rows at the 

 base of the scales, erect. Sds acutely angled. Cotyledons 2-4. In Central 

 Asia and the Mediterranean region occur 4 or 5 species, 3 or 4 are found in 

 western Mexico, the rest of the known species belonging to California. 

 C. macrocarpa Hartwig, in Hort Soc J 2:187 (1847). 



The Monterey Cypress, a tree becoming 40-70 ft hi, with rough bark, 

 spreading horizontal branches and flattened top, is found near the sea on 

 granite rock from Point Pinos near Monterey southward 4 or 5 miles to 

 Pescadero ranch. It was early introduced into England, and is now widely 

 cultivated, especially in southern California, and forms a characteristic feat- 

 ure of the flora of San Diego, though not native. At Point Pinos "the trees 

 very much resemble the Cedar of Lebanon in habit, with dense far-spread- 

 ing branches. W. H. Brewer recorded a circumference of 18 2-3 ft at 

 bight of 5 or 6 ft from the ground. Branches with dark gray and some- 

 what rugose bark; branchlets rather stout; lvs bright green, aeutish, ob~ 



