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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



the varieties \s. 6d. each; at Bollwylier, the varieties, 2 francs each. At New 

 York, plants of the Swedish juniper, which requires protection there during 

 winter, are 50 cents each. 



« 2. J. Oxy'cedrus L. The Sharp Cedar, or brown-berried. Juniper. 



Identification Lin. Sp. PI., U70. ; Willd. Sp., 4. p. 854. ; Lam. Diet., 2. p. 625. ; Desf. Fl. Atl., 2 

 p "70 ; Lois. Fl. Gall., p. 684. ; N. Du Ham., 6. p. 47. 



Si/nont/mes. J. mSljor Cam. Epit, 54. ; J. m. monspelieiisium Lob. /c, 2. p. 223. ; J. phoenicea, &c., 

 'j. kauh. Hist, 1. p. 277.; J. major, &c., C. Bauh., p. 489., Tourn. Inst., 589., Dm Ham. Arb., 

 p 322. t. 128., Rait Hist., 1413.; Cfedrus phoenicea j1/«</A. J'algr., 127.; Oxycedrus Clus. Hist., 

 \i. 39?; 6. phcenicea Dod. Pempt, p. 853. ; the prickly Cedar ; le Cade, Fr. ; Spanische Wach. 



En'iavings. Du Ham. Arb., 2. t. 128. ; N. Du Ham., fi. t. 15. f. 2. ; our fig. 2352. to our usual scale ; 

 and,^. 2351. of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., i$-c. Leaves in threes, spreading, niucronate, shorter than the 

 berries. (Willd.) An evergreen shrub, native of Spain, Portugal, and the 

 soutli of France. Introduced before 1739; flowering in May and June. 



Descriplion, Sfc. A shrub, closely allied to J^. communis, from 10 ft. to 12ft. 

 hi<Th and feathered from the ground. The branches are small and taper, with- 

 out angles. Berries very 



large, of a brownish red, 



and marked with two 



white lines. This species 



is said to form a handsome 



shrub when allowed suffi- 

 cient space ; and to be 



rather more tender than J. 



commCiris. In France, an 



essential oil is distilled 



from its Vv^ood, called huile 



de cade, which is used 



in veterinary medicine. 

 There are small plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, at Kew, and at 

 a few other places ; but we have never been able to see any above 1 ft. m 

 height. 



• 3. J. macroca'rpa Smith. The large-fruited Juniper. 



Identification. Smith in Fl. Grasc. Prod., 2. p. 263. ; ? Tenore Syll. Fl. Neapol. 



St/nonume. J. m4ior, bacea cierulea, Tourn. Inst., 589. ,^„ , .,. . , ■ 



Engravings. Lob. Icon., 2. p. 223. f. 1.; Tourn. Inst., 589. f. ; and our^^. 23jj. of the natural size, 



copied from the figure of L'Obel. * 



spec. Char., ^c. Leaves ternate, spreading, mucronate, sharply keeled, 



one-nerved. Berries elliptical, lunger than the leaf. {Smith Fl. Gr., 2. 



p. 267) A shrub, a native of Greece, with leaves like those of J. Ox. 



ycedrus, but the berries are twice as large, elliptic or obovate, and 



black covered with a violet bloom. There is a specimen in .Sibthorp's 



herbarium, in the Liiinaean .Society. {Du Ham.) Berries have been 



sent to us by the Honourable W. Fox Strangways, under the name 



of./, macrocarpa, (but which were of a brownish red, and only difl'er. 



ing from those of./. OxS^cedrus in size,) accompanied by the following 



remarks : — "Juniperus macrocarpa is described in Tcnore's Si/Z/og. Fl. 



Neapol., 18.32, 8vo. It is common along the sea-shore, particularly 



near 15aia, Cuma, and Licola ; and is a low thick bush, having neither 



the cedar-like spread of the common juniper, nor the upright .stature 



or J. OxJ'xedrus. J. Oxycedrus appears to he intermediate between 



./ communis and ./. macrocarpa ; having the small fruit of the former, 



and the spreading prickly leaves, wide apart, of the latter. U is not 



common in Italy, but is abundant in l.stria and Dalmatia, where it 



bears the Tiscum OxScedrL—W. Fox Strangways. January iO. 1838." 



Professor Don doubts much whether Tenore's J. macrocfirpa be any 



thing more than a variety of J. Oxycedrus. As Mr. Strangways has 



given seeds of Tcnore's plant to the Horticultural Society, and to other no r o 



collections, it will be known in a few years what it is. aooo 



« tt. 4. .7. drupa'cea Lab., N. Du Ham. The drupaceous, or large-fruited, 



Juniper. 



Identification. Labillard. Icon. Plant. Syr. Dec, 2. p. H. ; Mart. Mill., No. 11.; Desfont. Hist, des 

 Arbre.i et Arbriss., 2. p. .558. 



