176 ARBORETUM NOTES 
CONIFERA. 
CUPRESSINEE. 
Juniperus Tt stands in the western part of the arboretum, 
near the great Catalpa and the largest Pinus 
excelsa. It is certainly a very well-marked and 
peculiar kind, but I confess I have not yet care- 
fully compared it with the description, so as 
to verify the name. It answers well to the epithet 
excelsa, for it grows in almost as aspiring a form, 
as straight and upright as the Italian Cypress. 
The general colour is a remarkably pale, greyish 
green,—almost ashy; by which it is remarkably 
distinguished amidst the others in the arboretum. 
Its twigs and young shoots are slender; the 
leaves minute, scale-like, closely imbricated. I 
have not seen any of the long acicular lvaves 
which probably belonged to the young state of the 
plant. I find that on the youngest shoots the 
leaves are obtuse, closely imbricated in four rows 
(decussately opposite), as in the Cypresses, but 
on some of the older ones, they are in threes 
and pointed; but not acicular and spreading, 
as in some of the Junipers. If it were not for 
the fruits (galbul:), which it bears in abundance, 
one would certainly take it for a kind of Cypress. 
These (galbuli) are larger than those of the more 
common sorts of Juniper, being about as large 
as myrtle berries; they are of a _roundish- 
oval shape, of a pale green colour, which gradually 
changes as they ripen to a purplish-brown, covered 
