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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. SabiNac, with larger, reddish-glaucous, fibrous, dry, sweetish berries. 
a. Seeds single or few; leaves fringed or denticulate. 
a. Cotyledons 4-6. 
1. J. Californica. 
b. Cotyledons 2. 
2. y. Mexicana . 
b. Seeds numerous, 4^12; leaves slightly denticulate. 
3. y . jz 'tachyphloea. 
4. J.jlaccida. 
II. Sabina;, with smaller, bluishrblack (rarely brown) pulpy berries, of 
resinous taste. 
a. Leaves ciliate or denticulate. 
5. y. occidentalis. 
5*. y. cdnjungens. 
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, 
576 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. Torrey. (See Fig. 1.) 
Var. Utaiiensis : I,n all the parts smaller, leaves and tips of fruit-scales 
often impairs, 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 and into Arizona and Nevada.—Bark shreddy, wood palm; 
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