De I. VNER VEW D Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope

186 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
Utah Juniper.
Juniperns tah/tcvresis (Engelin.) Leoninon.
)ISTINGUISIIING CHIARACTERISTICS.
Utah juniper inhabits only a snail part of the Pacific region, its main range
lying east of this region. Commonly a low', very short-trunked, bushy, or manystemmned
tree from( G to 12 feet high and from 4 to S inches through near the
ground; sometimes considerably thicker, and with a wide, rounded, rather open
FIG. 73.-Jimiperifs utahemsis: a, seed.
crown of numerous, upright, Crumpled limbs. The usually short trunk is apt to
be one-sided, with conspicuous hollows (or folds) and ridges. Its thin. whitish
bark is cut into long, thinumishi scoles.
Minute, sharp, scale-like. pIle yellowish-green leaves (fig. 73), generally
without a pit (gland) on the back, are mostly in alternately opposite pairs, and