JUNIPERUS BERMUDIANA. 143 
Pl. v. 4,p. 851. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.3, p. 909. Loudon, 
Arb. Brit. v. 4, p. 2498, f. 2358 (young leaves only). 
Has. Bermudas. 
This is spoken of as a lofty tree, with loose, thin, 
reddish bark, and fragrant red wood. In our young but 
entire specimen, scarcely 1 foot high, the branches are nu- 
merous, erecto-patent, many simple, others again divided, 
and these, as well as the main stem above, where the 
branches begin to spring, at about 3 inches from the base, are 
every where clothed without any order, with densely placed 
linear-subulate, very acute, pungent, erecto-patent, shining 
leaves, grooved on the upper side, semiterete at the back, and 
_ there marked for the whole length with a depressed line. In 
à mature and fructified specimen, about 10 inches long, the 
main portion is, below, scarcely so thick as a goose-quill, and 
tapering upwards to less than the thickness of a crow’s-quill ; 
this part is clothed with leaves which below are rather re- 
Mote, ovate, acuminate, appressed, irregularly imbricated in 
four rows, but gradually as the leaves grow higher up, they 
are more elongated, and finish by being lanceolate-subulate, 
and irregularly imbricated ; these, as, indeed, all the leaves 
of the older branches, are concave or channelled within, 
Tounded on the back with a depressed, generally discoloured 
e, neither reaching to the apex nor to the base. This 
main branch bears numerous compound branchlets, of which 
the greater number and the lower ones, are fastigiate and 
barren, and clothed with small ovate, acute leaves, distinetly 
Imbricated in 4 rows; the fertile branchlets are similar, 
~ xcept that their ultimate barren divisions, as well as the 
.. xtreme ones of the main branch, are irregularly imbricated 
_ 4nd somewhat clavate. The fruit consists of small berries, 
. Searcely larger than grains of pepper in my specimens; the 
.. Smaller and younger ones are tubercled, the lower tubercles 
-with leaf-like points ; but these seem to be obliterated as they 
ict Advance to maturity, when they are purplish-brown, slightly. 
. Saucous in my specimens, but are said to be dark red inclin- 
IO to purple, when recent. pce 
