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one which at the same time extends through so many degrees of* 
latitude. It is well known from the St; Lawrence to the Cedar 
Keys of Florida, from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains ; and 
farther, even to the Pacific coast of British Columbia. 
I arrange the eight American species in the following order: 
I* Sabinae, with larger, reddish-glaucous, fibrous, dry, sweetish berries.^ 
A. Seeds single or few; leaves fringed or’denticulate; 
a. Cotyledons 4-6. 
1. y. Califdrnica. 
> b. Cotyledons 2. 
2. y. Mexicana. 
b. Seeds numerous, 4-12; leaves slightly denticulate. 
3. f. pq,chyphloea. 
4. y. flaccida. ■ 
II. Sabin^e, with smaller, bluish-black (rarely brown) pulpy berries, of 
resinous taste. 
a. Leaves ciliate or denticulate. 
5. y. occidentalis. 
5*• y.conjungens. 
6. y. tetragona. 
b. Leaves entire or nearly so. 
7. y. Sabina. 
8. y. Virginiana. 
9. y. Bermudiana. 
1. J. Californica, Carriere: A stout shrub, or small tree (rarely 20 to 
even 35 feet high) with stout branches, the branchlets perhaps the thick¬ 
est of any Sabina ; leaves almost always^ in 3 ’s, in young shoots acerose, 
white above, in adult plants, even on the thicker branches, closely appres- 
sed, short and thick, rounded at tip,.distinctly cartilaginous-fringed on 
the margins; anther-scales (18-24) mostly in 3 ’s, rhomboid, scarcely acute; 
scales of female ament usually 6, spreading; berry globose or mostly oval’ 
5-6 lines long, with scale-tips scarcely prominent; seeds 1 or sometimes 2 
4-6 lines long, with a very thick and hard shell, smooth, shining brown 
above, with large bilobed whitish hilum. — Rev. Hort. 3, 352 (1854); 
Conif. 58. y. tetragona, var. osteosperma, Torr. Bot. Whipp. in Pac. R.’ 
Rep. 4, 141; Bot. Mex. Bound. 210. y.■ Cerrosianus, : Kellogg, Proc. Calif. 
Acad. 2. 37, fide spec.-auctoris in Herb. Tofrey. (See Fig. 1.) 
Var. Utahensis,: In all the parts smaller, leaves and tips of fruit-scales 
often in pa^rSj fringe of leaf-margin shorter; berries more commonly glo¬ 
bose ; seeds mostly single, smaller. 
California, from San Francisco (Monte Diablo) southward, principally 
on the Coast range and on the Islands; the variety all over the southern 
parts of Utah arid into Arizona and Nevada.—Bark shreddy, wood pale- 
