Prate LXV. 
(A, B) JUNIPERUS Oxycepnrvs, Linn., var. macrocarpa ; 
(C) J. communts, Linn.; (D) J. pHentcea, Linn. 
Natural Order CoNIFERZ. 
Gen. Cuan.—Flowers dicecious, or moneecious on separate branches. 
Male catkins axillary or terminating the lateral branches; bracts... 
bearing the stamens below on the lower side of their stalk ; filaments 
wanting ; anthers 3-6 under each bract... unilocular... Female cat- 
kins axillary or terminating the lateral branches, surrounded at the base 
by a few sterile bracts; scales 4-6, decussately opposite, or 3-9, and 
ternately verticillate,... composed* of the leafy bract and the fleshy, 
subequal, scale closely combined into one... Ovary (ovule of most 
authors) orbicular, sublenticular, or compressed. Style very short 
.; stigma almost orbicular... Galbulus ripening during the second 
year, composed of fleshy scales and... 1-3 or rarely 4-8 nuts. Nuts 
erect ..., distinct, or very rarely united into a two- or three-celled 
nut..., pericarp stony. Seed solitary,...; embryo in the axis of 
fleshy albumen. Parl. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pars ii. p. 475. 
(A, B.) Spec. Coarn.—Catkins dicecious. Galbuli large, usually as long 
as or longer than leaf, covered with bluish-white bloom, when mature, 
red-brown, more or less bright, variable in shape, either globular or pyri- 
form on the same branch, never prominently lobed. Vwts 3 only, ovoid- 
oblong, emarginate, with the persistent style forming an apiculum in 
the notch, having 2-3 prominent angles, partly enclosed in a bilobed 
membrane. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute and pungent, the lower 
ones on each branch ovate or ovate-lanceolate, all having two whitish 
lines on upper surface, lower surface angular. Growth that of a small 
tree, attaining to about the size of a large Hawthorn (Crategus Oxy- 
acantha, Linn.). 
Juniperus Oxycedrus, Linn., a. macrocarpa, Moggridge. J. Oxycedrus, 
Endlicher, Syn. Conif. p. 10. J. macrocarpa, Sibth, et Sm. ex Spec. in 
Herb. Sibth. non ex deser. in Prod. Fl. Gree. i. 268. J. macrocarpa, 
Parl. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pars ii. p. 476. 
(C.) Spec. CHar.—Catkins diccious. Galbuli small, purplish-black 
when ripe. Nuts 8 only, ovoid-oblong, having 2-3 prominent angles, 
partly covered by an adherent membrane. Leaves linear, pungent, having 
only one whitish, central line. Growth shrubby, attaining 3-9 feet. 
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* M. Parlatore regards each seale, at the base of which ovules are formed, as the 
bract of a lateral aborted branch, one or two other bracts belonging to which branch 
are united in part, or completely, as in this case, with the inner face of the scale. 
