. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Rocky Mountain Red Cedar 119 meters with a trunk diameter of 6 dm.; also called Southern juniper and by many of the names applied to the northern species. The trunk is similar to that of the Northern red cedar. The branches how- ever, are more slender, ascending and spreading, or the lower ones drooping, forming a broad irregular open head. The bark separates into long, thin shreddy scales of a brownish or grayish color.
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Rocky Mountain Red Cedar 119 meters with a trunk diameter of 6 dm.; also called Southern juniper and by many of the names applied to the northern species. The trunk is similar to that of the Northern red cedar. The branches how- ever, are more slender, ascending and spreading, or the lower ones drooping, forming a broad irregular open head. The bark separates into long, thin shreddy scales of a brownish or grayish color. The twigs are very slender, 4-angled, drooping, becoming, after the leaves fall, reddish brown or gray. The leaves are light green, opposite, closely appressed, ovate, sharp-pointed, entire on the margin, distinctly glan- dular on the back. The flowers are dioecious, opening in February or March, the staminate 3 to 6 mm. long, composed of about 12 sta- mens. The pistillate flowers are ovoid, 4 to 5 mm. long, composed of a few sharp- pointed scales, which become blunt in fruit. The fruit is , , , , , Fig. g^. — Southern Red Cedar, nearly globular, about 4 mm. in diameter, dark blue, smooth or shghtly marked by the blunt points of the scales. Seeds i or 2, ovoid, pointed, ridged, 3 mm. long. The wood is soft, weak, close-grained, and red; its specific gravity is about It is fragrant, very straight-grained, and was, imfil recently, almost exclu- sively used by lead-pencil manufacturers but has now become very expensive. The tree is ,very generally cultivated in the south for ornament and shade, being one of the most beautiful Junipers and the most extensively planted coniferous tree in the south; doubtless many of the garden varieties attributed to the Northern red cedar are forms of this 12. ROCKY MOUNTAIN RED CEDAR — Junipenis scopulorum Sargent A tree of the Rocky mountain region, from Alberta and British Columbia to western Texas and Arizona, usually at ele
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