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advisable to abandon it. Mr. O. Paulsen very kindly made a 
search for an authentic specimen in the Botanical Museum at 
Copenhagen, but without result. Another specific name antidat- 
ing the one here adopted which might very well have referred 
to the same plant is I. macrophylla, Desf. This species was 
ounded on a plant grown in the Paris Botanic Gardens in 1829, 
but Prof. Lecomte informs us that no dried specimen has been 
found in the Paris Herbarium. In regard to the examination 
of the type of M. geminata, DC., (1830), M. C. De Candolle very 
kindly supplied a portion for comparison, and its identity with 
M. quadrangularis, G. Don (1834), has thus been confirmed. 
III.—CONIFEROUS TIMBERS. 
Tue JUNIPERS AND THEIR COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE, 
W. DaLrimore. 
the Himalaya northwards almost to the limit of shrub life, North 
America, the West Indies, Northern Africa, East Africa, the 
or scale-like and pressed close to the branches. The acicular 
type always obtains in seedlings and in some species prevails 
both kin s of leaves are found on mature plants he fruits 
are berry-like, several seeds being enclosed by fleshy resinous 
scales, mn many instances the wood is red or vellow 
in colour and fragrant. It is sometimes used for building pur- 
hen too small or knotty for other uses it form i 
: s very serviceable _ 
fences. Oil, used for perfumery, etc., is obidided from the ’— 
