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Order XII— MONADELPHIA. 



306. JUNIPERUS. L, (Juniper.) 



Masg. Ament ovate. Calix consisting of 

 scales. Stamina 3. Fem.. Calix 3-parted, 

 Fetah 3? Stijles 5, Berry I oi- 2-seeded, tu= 

 bercular. Seeds unciform. 



Arborescent, shrubby or sufTruticose, branches mostly 

 alternate; leaves opposite, or verticillated in 3s or 4s, im= 

 bricated or spreading-, pungently acute or partly obtuse; 

 aments terminal, or v/ith the berries axillary- 



Species. 1. J. communis. (Common Juniper.) v. v. 

 (in the sandv shores of lake Huron, alnindant. 2. virgin- 

 iana. (Red. Cedar) Hab. From Canada to Florida, and 

 on the banks of the Miss'sippi and Missouri to their 

 sources. Obs. Younger leaves spreading, the older ones 

 only imbricated. 3. *repens. SteP.i prostrate, repent; 

 leaves pungent, imbricated by 4s; berries large and con- 

 spicuuusiy tubercular. J. prostrata? Persoon, 2, p. 6c>2. 

 Hab On the sandy shores or" lake Huron, and also on 

 the hig-h hills of the Missouri, near Fort Mandan- A 

 species sufnciently distinct and remarkable; !iever rising- 

 from the surface of the ground, its diffuse branches pro- 

 duce a dense and verdant carpet. 4. Saoitia. (Savin.) 

 5. e.rce'sa. Indigenous to Siberia and the sources of the 

 Missouri. 6. barbadensis. In Florida. 



A g-enus of about 15 species, principally indig-enous to 

 North America as far as the tropic, also to Europe the. 

 Levant and Northern Asia. 



807. TAXUS. L. (Yew Tree.) 



Masc. Calix consisting; of 4 to 6 oppositely 

 imbricated scales. Corolla none. Staminife^ 

 reus column 5?-(;left at the summit; anthers pel^ 

 tate, 6 to 8-lobed. Fb\i. Stijle none. Recepta- 

 cle cup-shaped, succulent. JYut owiite, naked. 



Trees cr shrubs witii alternate branches; leaves alter- 

 nate, linear and sempervirent, mostly distichal; flowt' 

 buds solitary and asil!ar\ : bei ry imperfect, in the forn- 

 of a cup supporiing the seed. 

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