142 JUNIPERUS BERMUDIANA. 
ever had the pleasure of seeing specimens of this important - 
tree. 'That gentleman has not only obligingly sent some 
young living plants to the Botanie Garden, direct from the : 
Bermudas, but bas supplied my Herbarium with a young 
plant, and an old branch with berries. But even these — | 
valuable as they are, are scarcely sufficient for me to draw up — | 
an accurate description, so extremely variable are the leaves 
upon the old and the young plant, and even in the older - 
portion upon different branchlets of one and the same - 
branch. It seems to be almost wholly, if not quite, un- — 
known to modern botanical authors; nor do I find thatany  — 
one has attempted to improve on the old Linnean chara 
ter :—* J, Bermudiana ; foliis inferioribus ternis, superioribus — 
binis decurrentibus subulatis patulis acutis;’ a charactet — 
which by no means accords with my most perfect specimen. — 
Linneus quotes Herm. Lugd. 345 & 347, a work I have not 
at hand to refer to; but since that is called “J. Bermudiana) — 
it is probable that that is the true plant from the Berm — 
das; though Linnæus appears to give it a more extended : 
range, by quoting Brown’s Jamaica, 362, and by sayings — 
“habitat in America.” It would appear that there is n9 Á 
authentic specimen in the Linnean Herbarium; for Sit - 
James E. Smith remarks, that probably several species are — 
confounded under this name. Sprengel’s, perhaps the latest — 
published specific character, is almost verbatim that of Lin- 
næus and Willdenow, 
All that I shall attempt to do, at this time, is to give as — 
accurate a description as possible of the specimens before me s 
~ Juniperus Bermudiana; arborescens, folis in ramis pri- 
mariis omnibus lineari-subulatis acutissimis undique erecto- 
patentibus intus canaliculatis dorso linea media exaratis, in 
adultis arcte sepe quadrifariam imbricatis plerisque ovatis 
acutis, intus concavis extus dorso canaliculatis, baccis termi- 
nalibus parvulis (vix maturis) subrugosis. (TAs. I). e 
Juniperus Bermudiana. * Herm. Lugd. 345, et 347- 
Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1471, (excl. syn. Brown, Jam.). Willd. SP- 
