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JUNIPERUS SABINA. COMMON SAVIN. 



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. STNONTMA, Sablna. Pharm. Lond, ^ Edmk 

 Varietates funt,f . 



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Sabina folils Cuprefli. Baub. Fin. p, 487. Sablna baccifera. 

 Bauh. Hift. vol up, 288. Gerard. Emac. p, 1376. Sabina bac- 

 cifera major. Park. Theat. p. 1026. Cedrus baccifera frudu 



minore casruleo. Raii Hift. p. 14 15. Jiiniperus foliis cauli ad- 

 preiTis lanceolatis, alterne conjugatis. Hal. Stlrp. Helv. lu 1662. 



^ Sabina folio Tamarifci Diofcoridis. Bauh. Pin. p. 487. Sabina 

 fterilis. Gerard. Emac. p. 1378. Sabina vulgaris. Park. Theat. 



. 1027. Raii PTift. p. 14 1 5. ^io,^^^ Gracorum. 



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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plajit. 11^^. 



E^ Gen. Ch. Ma s c. Ainenti Calyx fquamse. Cor. o. Stam. 3. 



Fem. 6*<3'/. 3-partitus. Petal a 2^. Styli 2,' ■ Bacca 



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3-fperma, tribus tiiberculis calycis inasqualis. 



Sp. CL J. foliis oppofitis eredis decurrentibus : oppofitioiiibus 



pyxidatis. 



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THIS fbrub rlfes but a few feet in height: it is covered with a 

 leddifh brown bark, and fends off many branches, which are numeroull^ 

 fubdivided : the leaves are numerous, fmall, ered, oppofite, firm, and 

 wholly inveft the younger branches, which they terminate in iharp 

 points : " the flowers are male and female on different plants : the 



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[yces of the male flowers ftand in a conical catkin, which coniiits or 

 :ommon fpike-flalk, in which three oppofite flowers are placed in a 

 pie rov^-, and a tenth flower at the end. At the bafe of each flower 

 a broad ^oxtfcale fixed laterally to^ a columnar pedicle : there is 

 no corolla : the filaments in the terminating flower are three, taper 



t Thefe two varieties are precifely the fame as thofe noticed by Diofcorides. 



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