196 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
Sus-Kinepom II].—GYMNOSPERMS. 
Seeds naked, not enclosed in an ovary. (Orders 
Ci SChL) 
Order: Cll.—_CONIFERA, 
Flowers unisexual, moncecious or dicecious; perianth 
o; male flowers in false catkins, composed of one or 
more anthers; female flowers solitary or arranged, 
usually in pairs, on the under side of open carpellary 
leaves, which harden into woody scales, forming a cone; 
seeds often winged; leaves usually rigid, subulate, often 
in fascicles. Trees or shrubs, usually evergreen, and 
mostly resinous. A rather large order, most abundant 
in the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. 
i JUNIPERUS, .L. 
Male catkins small; female cones ripening the second 
year, few-flowered, small, globose, berry-like, resinous, 
composed of fleshy scales, blue when ripe; ovules 1-2 
under each scale; leaves subulate or scale-like, resinous. 
J... communzs, L., Juniper; open hill-sides; Switzer- 
land, Pyrenees. /. xana, Willd. (alpzna, Clus.) (Pl. 120); 
leaves linear, shorter and broader than in the last, in 
whorls of 3, stem prostrate or ascending ; open hill-sides, 
high; Switzerland, Jura, Tirol, Carpathians, Dauphiny, ~ 
Pyrenees. /. Sabina, L., Savin; cone on a short re- 
curved stalk, leaves of two kinds, small rhomboidal scales, 
imbricate in four rows, and acicular, spreading; high; 
Switzerland, Tirol, Carniola, Styria, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
