JUNIPERUS SABINA. ORD. I. > Conifer. : } 
pedicle: there is no corolla: the filaments in the terminating flower 
are three, tapering, united at the bottom into. one body, and 
furnished with simple antherz, but in the lateral flowers. the. fila- 
ments are scarcely perceptible, and the anther are fixed to the 
scale of the calyx: the calyx of the female flowers is composed of 
three small permanent scaly segments, growing to the germen: 
the petals are three, stiff, sharp, permanent: the germen supports 
three styles, supplied with simple stigmata: the fruit is a roundish 
fleshy berry, marked with tubercles, .which are the vestiges of the 
petals and calyx ; when ripe the berry is of a.blackish purple colour, 
and contains three small hard irregular shaped seeds, It flowers in 
May and June. 
Savin is a native of the South of Europe and they ‘Levant: it has 
been long cultivated in our gardens,’ and from producing male and 
female flowers on separate plants it was formerly distinguished inte 
the barren and berry. bearing Savin: the. latter of these our plate 
represents”. “The leaves and. tops of Savin have a moderately 
strong smell of the-disagreeable kind, and a hot, bitterish, acrid 
taste; they give out great part of their active matter to watery 
liquors, and the whole to rectified spirit. Distilled with water 
they yield a large quantity of essential oil." _Decoctions..of the 
leaves, freed from the volatile principle by inspissation to .the con- 
sistence of an extract, retain a considerable share of their pungency 
and warmth along with their bitterness, and have some degree. of 
smell, but not resembling that of the plant itself. On inspissating 
the spirituous tincture, there remains an extract, consisting of two 
distinct substances, of which one is yellow, unctuous or oily, bitterish, 
and very pungent; the other black resinous, tenacious, less pungent, 
and subastringent.” 
® Cultivated in 1562. Turn. herb. part 2. fol. 194 <4iton’s Hort. Kew. 
» For the male inflorescence of this genus, see the next plate, viz. n. 6. 
* From thirty-two ounces Hoffman obtained five ounces of this essential oil, in 
which the whole virtue of the plant seems to reside. + Lewis Mat. Med. 
