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JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS. ' COMMON JUNIPER 





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S TNONTMA, Juniperus. • Phann, Lond, ^ Edinh. Junipems 

 vulgaris fmticofa. Bauh. Fin. p. 488. Juniperus vulgaris. FarL 



Theat. p. 1028. Gerard. Emac. p. 1372. Rail Hi ft. p. 141 1. 

 Synop. p. 44. Juniperus foliis convexo-concavis, ariftatis, baccis ' 



ffilibii 



3 . Hal. Stifp. Ilelv. n. 1661. Iliidfoji. Flor. Aug, 

 p. 436. ^Withermg. BoL Arrang. /. 1 1 29. Mill, illuji. ic. 



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/3 Juniperus foliis ternis patentibus, acutioribus, ramis eredioribus, 



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bacca longioribus. • Mill. Di£i. Swedifh Juniper. 



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Y Juniperus minor montana, folio latiore, fruduque longiore. Bauh, 



Fin. 489. . Procumbent Juniper 



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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 11 34 



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Eff. Gen. Ch. Masq. Jjnenti Calyx fquamas. Cvr. o. Statu. 3. 



. Eem. C^/.3-partitus. P^/^/^7 3. Styli'^. ^^f<:^'3-fperma, 



tribus tuberculis calycis insequalis. 



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Sp. Ch. J. foliis ternis patentibus mucronatis bacca longioribus. 



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THIS fpecies ufually rifes much higher than the Sabina; it is 

 covered with brov/nifii bark, and divides into many branches ; the 

 leaves are very numerous, Jong, narrow, pointed, of a deep greeij 

 colour, and ftand in ternaries : the flowers are male and fern 



different plants, and anfwer to the defcription of thofe which we 

 have given of Juniperus Sabina:"* the berries conlinue two years 

 upon^ the tree before they become perfedly ripe, when they are of a 

 blackifh colour, round, filled with a brownifh pulp, and each contain 



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wf the Sabina we ought to have remarked, that the eflentlal oil and the watery ex- 



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20. 



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a compoiitus, 



three 



