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

188 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
The crown form varies from a low, open, bushy, broad, round-topped tree under
10 feet in height to one with a conical crownl 20 or 25 or. sometimes, 30 feet
high. The short, clear part of the trunk is rarely more than from 10 to 20
inches in diameter. The branches often become large and greatly distorted
in old trees, much as in the western julliper. The bark, outwardly weathered
to a gray color and red-brown beneath, is in contrast with the clear, light
FIG 74- Jmuoipc us califconica: a, seed, twice natural size.
cinnamon-browvn bark of its relative. lBranchlets, after losing their leaves,
have thin, scaly bark of pale ashy-browiv color; those of the western juniper
are reddish brown.
The pale yellowish green color of the foliage is fairly distinct from the
pale ashy-green foliage of western juniper. The light, red-brown "berries"
(fig. 74), one-fourth to nearly one-half inch in length, and maturing by about