. 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. io8 The Junipers Leaves light green, about 3 mm. long, acute or acuminate Leaves dark green, about mm. long, obtuse or acutish. Leaves entire. Eastern trees; fruit maturing the first season. Fruit 5 to 6 mm. long; branches not pendulous, or slightly so. Fruit 3 to 4 nmi. long; branches pendulous. Western tree; fruit maturing the second season. 8. /. monosperma. 9. J. mexicana. 10. /. virginiana. 11. J. barbadensis. 12
. 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. io8 The Junipers Leaves light green, about 3 mm. long, acute or acuminate Leaves dark green, about mm. long, obtuse or acutish. Leaves entire. Eastern trees; fruit maturing the first season. Fruit 5 to 6 mm. long; branches not pendulous, or slightly so. Fruit 3 to 4 nmi. long; branches pendulous. Western tree; fruit maturing the second season. 8. /. monosperma. 9. J. mexicana. 10. /. virginiana. 11. J. barbadensis. 12. /. scopulorum. I. COMMON JUNIPER—Jnniperus commnnis Linnasus Often a low shrub, the Common juniper sometimes becomes a tree 9 meters high with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. Its range is from Greenland and Labrador to Alaska, south to Pennsylvania, Nebraska and New Mexico; also in Europe and Asia; it is also called Dwarf juniper. It has escaped from cultivation in Georgia. The trunk is usually excentric and irregularly ridged. The branches are slender, nearly erect, forming a narrowly conic tree. The bark is about mm. thick, splitting into persistent scales of a reddish brown color. The twigs are slender, 3-angled, smooth, and reddish yellow. The buds are ovoid and scaly. The leaves, which persist for many years, are in whorls of 3, widely spreading, narrowly linear-lanceolate, i to 2 cm. long, tapering to a very sharp-pointed apex, widest near or at the sessile base, slightly concave, white-glaucous and with many stomata above, keeled, dark green and shining beneath, becoming brownish in winter. The flowers are axillary, dioecious, or monoe- cious, solitary, appearing in spring from buds formed the previous season. The staminate are sessile, narrowly ovoid, 4 to 5 mm. long, consisting of several whorls of 3 stamens each, their connectives broadly ovate, sharp-pointed, with 3 or sometimes 4 anther-sacs at the base. The pistillate flowers consist of 3 minute scales each beari
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