JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA. 
Red Cedar. 
ciel 
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| PLATE XLV. 
oe the vite of the recoiling arth, 
this species rises into a tree of considerable size. 
It is the largest of the Junipers growing within 
the original limits of the United States, though 
it appears that Lewis. and Clarke brought home 
specimens of a lofty tree, with foliage resembling 
the Savin, found on the banks of streams among 
the Rocky mountains, and which is supposed to 
be the same with J. excelsa, growing in Siberia. 
Michaux, in his North American Sylva, in- 
forms us, that it is found from Maine and -from 
Lake Champlain, without interruption to the 
Cape of Florida. In the Middle and Northern 
states, it frequents the most barren soils, being 
found in abundance upon dry, rocky hills, where 
scarcely any other tree can subsist. Its size, 
however, is said to be here inferior to that which 
it attains in Virginia, and farther south. - 
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"MISSOURI 
BOTANICAL 
GARDEN. 
