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THE CONIFEROUS PLANTS OF ITALY. 



according to Captain Webb, even to Nepal and Bootan ; but tliis 

 last assertion requires to be confirmed. 



2. JuNiPERUs NANA. Linn. 



Tiiis species is found on the Alps, in the sub- Alpine and Al- 

 pine regions, seldom below 5000 or above 7500 feet (Baldo, 

 Stilfserjoch, Legnone, Maloggia, Alpe di Lago, Simplon, Mont- 

 Cenis, Col de Tende), on the Apuan Apennines, according to 

 specimens communicated by the younger Bertoloni, on Mount 

 Velino, and perhaps also on the other summits of the Apen- 

 nines, which are sufficiently high. 



To the north of the Alps it occurs in the Carpathian moun- 

 tains (Wahlenberg), in Lapland as far as the most northern re- 

 gions (Wahlenberg), on the Altai" mountains (Ledebour), in 

 Greenland (F. Vahl), and the most northern countries of North 

 America (Hooker). According to Webb, it is also met with on 

 the high mountains of Portugal. 



3. JUNIPERUS HEMISPHiERICA. Presl. 



In the upper, barren region of Mount Etna there is found a low, 

 spreading species of juniper, which, from its locality, I regard as 

 the J. hemisphserica of Presl., although I have never found it in 

 fructification. Its region, according to my own observations, 

 agrees with that assigned to it by Philippi and Carlo Gemellaro, 

 and may be fixed between 5000 and 7000 feet. Tenore says 

 that it was found by Gussone on the Aspromonte, and on several 

 of the mountains of Calabria. 



I found on the subalpine regions of Mounts Sibilla, Amaro, 

 and Gransasso, a juniper bush very much like that from Etna, 

 having flattened berries. I am not quite certain, however, that 

 it is not a mountain variety of Juniperus communis. 



Juniperus hemisphserica has not hitherto been met with out of 

 Italy. 



4. Juniperus Oxycedrus. 



This species is quite different from J. macrocarpa, with which 

 it is often confounded. I found it on the Apennines,, at a height 

 of from 1000 to 3000 feet (between Otricoli and Narni, between 

 Norcia and Castelluccio, on Mount Gargano). According to 

 Tenore, it also grows on Mount Salviano. It is most probably 

 the same plant found by Orlandini at Gabbredo di Monte Auto e 

 dei Monti-Rognosi. 



As this species is often confounded with the next, it is diffi- 

 cult to state what are its real localities out of Italy. I take the 

 " Cade " of the south of France to be J. Oxycedrus, as also the 

 species which according to Sibthorp is common in Greece and the 



