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1. Thuja occidentalis L. Arborvitae. Usually a small, 
conical tree with fan-like branches. Self-prunes twigs. Wood 
light and durable. Usually in wet soil and along the banks of 
streams. Champaign, Franklin, Greene, Highland and Adams 
Counties. 
Juniperus L. Juniper. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs with small globose, berry-like 
bluish or blackish cones. 
1. Leaves all subulate, prickly pointed, verticillate ; cones axillary. ... 2 
1. Leaves of 2 kinds, scale-like and subulate, opposite or verticillate; 
cones terminal J. virginiana. 
2. Erect trees or shrubs; leaves slender, mostly straight J. communis. 
2. Low depressed shrubs; leaves stouter, mostly curved J. nana. 
1. Juniperus communis L. Common Juniper. A low tree 
with spreading or drooping branches and shreddy bark. Goats 
are poisoned from eating the leaves. On dry hills. In the 
northern part of Ohio, as far south as Fairfield County. 
2. Juniperus nana Willd. Low Juniper. A depressed 
rigid shrub usually with creeping radiating branches, the ends 
erect or ascending, thus forming circular patches. In dry open 
places. Cedar Point, Erie County. 
3. Juniperus virginiana L. Red Juniper. A tree with 
spreading, ofter irregular branches, when old, but conic in shape 
when young. Self-prunes twigs. Wood very valuable, light, 
straight-grained, durable and fragrant; used almost exclusively 
in the manufacture of lead pencils. Often infested with the 
“cedar-apple” fungus. Poisonous to goats. Common on hills 
and bluffs; general in Ohio. 
Order, TAXALES. 
Conifers with the stamens (microsporophylls) in cones, but 
the carpels (megasporophvlls) mostly single; ours with a red 
fleshy disk surrounding the ripe seed. 
Taxaceae, Yew Family. 
Staminate (microsporangiate) cone with 3-5 stamens; carpels 
solitary with one or two erect ovules. 
Taxus L. Yew. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs without resin, with spirally ar- 
ranged, short petioled, linear, flat leaves spreading into 2 ranks. 
Fruit with a bony seed surrounded by a fleshy red disk. 
1. Taxus canadensis Marsh. American Yew. A low, usual- 
ly straggling shrub with linear leaves green on both sides. The 
leaves are supposed to be poisonous to stock. On rocky banks 
and in woods. Northern Ohio, as far south as Fairfield and 
Greene Counties. 
