NAT. ORDER. 



ConifercB. 



JUNIPERUS SABINA. COMMON SAVINE 



Class XXII. Di^ciA. Order XIII. Monadelphia. 



Gen. Char. Male : Amcnt ovate. Calyx a scale. Corolla want- 

 ing. Stamens three. Female : Calyx three-parted. Petals 

 three. Styles three. Berry three-sided, irregular, with the tu- 

 bercles of the calyx. 



Spe. Char. Leaves opposite, erect, decurrent ; the oppositions closed. 



This shrub is found growing in some parts of the United States, 

 but is a native of the southern parts of Europe and the Levant. It 

 occupies high situations, and is cultivated for medicinal purposes. It 

 rises three or four feet high, and is covered with a reddish-brown 

 bark ; it sends off many branches, which are numerously divided. 

 The leaves are small, numerous, opposite, erect, pointed, firm, and of 

 a bright green color, terminating the younger branches in sharp points. 

 The male and female flowers are on different plants ; the male catkin 

 consists of three opposite flowers, placed in a triple row, with a tenth 

 flower at the end ; at the base of each flower is a broad scale. The 

 filaments are only in the terminal flower ; they are tapering, united at 

 the base, and furnished with simple anthers, which are sessile in the 

 lateral flowers. In the female, (which our plate represents,) the calyx 

 is composed of three permanent scales ; the petals are stiffj sharp, and 

 permanent ; the germen supports three with simple stigmas ; ihe fruit, 

 when ripe, is a round fleshy berry, of a purple color, tuberculated, and 

 containing three small irregular shaped seeds ; it flowers in May and 



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