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bermudiana rather than Juniperus virginiana. 1 One of the specimens in the Sloane Her- 

 barium is evidently the type of Plukenet's figure, cited above. Sloane's own Jamaica 

 collections contain specimens of both Juniperus virginiana and Juniperus bermudiana, 

 the latter being referred to thus — "An prmcedentis varietas." On the other hand, there 

 is, with the exception noted below, not a single specimen of Juniperus bermudiana in any 

 of the modern collections of West Indian plants either at Kew or the British Museum, the 

 only Juniperus represented being Juniperus virginiana. Ponthieu, however, collected 

 a specimen of Juniperus bermudiana in Antigua, but there is this memorandum on his 

 label — " Brought here from Bermuda, and not common." 



Hermann (op. sup. cit.) represents a young seedling plant, with the characteristic long 

 spreading leaves, bedecked with berries as large as oranges, if he observed proportion in 

 his drawing ! It is quite evident that the artist added the fruit. Hermann's plant was 

 obtained from England ; and the true Bermudan cedar was cultivated in England in 1684, 

 as we learn from a letter written by Sir Hans Sloane to Mr Ray in November of that 

 year. Plukenet's figure of the adult state, as already mentioned, seems to have been 

 made from a dried specimen still preserved in the Sloane Herbarium. 



Of the so-called Barbados cedar we have only the vaguest information. In his History 

 of the Barbados, Schomburgh makes no mention of a juniper beyond the name Juniperus 

 barbadensis in his list of the plants of the island ; and Maycock (Flora Barbadensis, 

 p. 395) states that Juniperus barbadensis was by no means common at that date (1830) 

 in the island, from which it derived its name. 



The Bermudan cedar is easily distinguished from the red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), 

 though the latter is very variable in different localities of its very wide area of distribution. 

 In the adult or fertile state — that is, the state with small imbricating leaves, which alone 

 bear flowers — it has thicker ultimate branchlets, owing to the greater thickness of the rather 

 obtuse, not acute, leaves, which, instead of having a distinct gland on the back, like 

 Juniperus virginiana, are merely furrowed. The berries are larger, and contain three 

 or more seeds, smaller than those of Juniperus virginiana, which are solitary or only 

 two in a berry, so far as we have been able to compare them. 



Dr W. G. Fallow, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, states in a letter that he collected 

 good specimens of the juniper during a sojourn in the Bermudas, and they were examined 

 by Dr Engelmann, who pronounced Juniperus bermudiana to be a good species, and dis- 

 tinct from Juniperus barbadensis ; so there would be a third species in the West Indies. 



1 Excellent specimens of Juniperus bermudiana from Jamaica have reached Kew at the last moment. Mr 

 1 1. Morris sends them with the information that this is the only species indigenous in the Elue Mountains. 



