Identifier: reportsofexplora06unit (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Subjects: Pacific railroads Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS BOTANT 59 Juniperus occrDENTALis. (Plate X.) The western juniper.J. OCCEDENTAIJS, Hook. Flvr. Bar. Amer. 2, p. 166.J. ANiHAXA. NhU. Sylv. 3, p. 3d, t. 110.This tree, which is well represented in the accompanying plate, closely resembles in its generalaspect its eastern representative, J. Virginiana, but is distinguished from it by the larger sizeof its berries; by its more glandular and resinous leaves, which are also less acute ; and by thecharacter of its wood, which, in all the trees examined, was white, not at all resembling thedark and fragrant wood of the red cedar. We found it abundant on rocky and barren surfaces east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascademountains from Pit river to the Columbia. The largest individual of the species noticed had a diameter of three feet near the ground andan altitude of about forty feet. The fruit forms an important part of the subsistence of several kinds of birds, especially ofPrince Maximilians jay and Townsends Ptilogonys.

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