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ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUNIPER. 
JUNIPERUS andina, ramis patentibus , foliis quadrifariam imbricatis 
ovatis obtusiusculis convexis apice subcarinatis , egla?idulosis , baccis 
magnis , caule arboreo . 
Juniperus occidentals ? Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am. 2, p. 166 . 
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On passing a gorge of the Rocky Mountains or Northern 
Andes, and approaching Lewis’s River of the Oregon, we 
first observed this curious and elegant tree, accompanying 
groves of the American Cembra Pine, spreading for miles 
along the declivity of the mountain, and in an opposite 
direction ascending well towards the summit of a moun- 
tain, which still presented patches of snow in the month of 
July, under the latitude of about 42 degrees. It attains 
nearly the height of our Virginian Juniper, or “Red 
Cedar,” growing up about 15 to 20 feet, but presents a 
very different aspect, the stem ending in a roundish, and 
not a conic top. The foliage is also of a glaucous or 
bluish-green. The leaves are all closely appressed, and 
imbricated in 3 or 4 rows, the older ones on the stem 
acute, the proper leaves minute, rather blunt, remarkable 
for their convexity, and without any glands; the branchlets 
are numerous and complicated. The berries unusually 
large, larger than those of the Common Juniper, (/. com- 
munis,) dark-brown and glaucous, with distinct vestiges of 
the scales which compose them. 
This plant is, no doubt, the Juniperus excelsa of Pursh, 
but not the plant of Pallas, according to specimens which 
I have examined from Tauria. He speaks of it as col- 
lected by Captain Lewis on the banks of the waters of the 
