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anther-scales 10-12, rounded, entire, each bearing usually 4 or sometimes 

 ■6 anther-cells; berries on straight peduncles, 1-2 -seeded; seeds angled, 

 mostly grooved, and often rough toward the upper end. — Spec. PI. 1471 

 (1753) ; Parlat. I. c. 4 SS. (See Fig. 8.) 



From the St. Lawrence to Florida and from the Atlantic to the North- 

 ern Pacific; it is not found in Southern Texas, in the greater part of 

 Utah and Arizona, and in the whole of California and perhaps Oregon; 

 in Washington Territory and British Columbia it associates with Sabhia 

 and perhaps with occidentalis, and in the Rocky Mountains south of Pike's 

 Peak with the latter species; on the upper Missouri (Cedar Island) it 

 attains large dimensions. — Usually the berries are small, about 3 lines 

 thick, but in the Rocky Mountains forms occur with berries of 4 or 5 lines 

 in diameter, and with larger seeds; among the foot-hills of Pike's Peak 

 the trees of this species have the size and shape of an apple tree, with a 

 rounded, spreading top. 



9. J. Bermudiana, Lin. ; A tree said to have been common on the Ber- 

 mudas, and also in other West Indian Islands, of which I have seen only 

 a few specimens. Branchlets stout; leaves in pairs, oblong or linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, closely appressed, with entire margins and a well marked 

 linear gland or resin-duct on the back; anther -scales about 16, large, 

 rounded, smooth-edged, with about 6 cells ; berry with 2-4 seeds, much 

 like those of the last species.— Spec. PI. 1. c— Parlat. 1. c. 490. (See Fig. 8.) 

 jf. Barbadcnsis, Lin. is said to be the same species, and Biota Melden- 

 sis, Gord. its acerose young state. Michaux, as well as Parlatore, quotes 

 Florida as its home, but all the specimens from that country which I have 

 seen, even those from Cedar Keys, and those of Michaux's Herbarium 

 in Paris under the name of J, Barbadensis, are nothing but forms of J. 

 Virginicuia, with very small, rounded and strongly convex leaves. The 

 forms from the different West Indian Islands, all referred to J. Bermu- 

 diana, require further examination, as we know that one at least, from Cuba 

 .(see p. 590), is certainly quite different from it. 



