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much less common than so fine a shrub deserves to be. The plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, after being 10 years planted, is 10 ft. hi2:h. 

 In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, it is 19 ft. high, and the 

 diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6d. 

 each ; and at Bollwyller, 3 francs. 



m. *~ 10. J. (p.) ly'cia L. The Lycian Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1471.; Willd. Sp. PI., iv. p. 855.; Pall. Ross., ii. p. 14. t. 56. ; Ait. Hort. 



Kew V p. 415. ; Loild. Cat., ed. 183fi. 

 Si/nonymcs. ./. p. (3 IJ^cia N. Du Hmn.,\\. p. 47. ; Cedrus phoenicea Altera Plinie et Theophrastt 



Lob Ic ii. p 221 ; C. f'ulio Cupressi, Ike, C. Bimh. Pin., p. 487. 

 Engravings. Pall. Hoss., t. 5o. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 17. ; and our fig. 2367., &nAfig. 2368. from Pallas. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, imbricate on all sides, ovate, obtuse. 

 {Willd.) Miller describes the Lycian cedar as having its branches "growing 

 erect, and covered with a reddish brown bark. 

 Leaves small, obtu.se. Male flowers at tlie ends of 

 the branches, in a conical anient ; and tlie fruit single 

 from the axils below them, on the same branch. 

 Berries large, oval, aiid, when ripe, brown." Ac- 

 cording to Pallas, ./. lycia is an entirely prostrate 

 shruli, with the trunk branching from the very 

 bottom, and often thicker than the human arm. 

 This, and tlie branches, are often variously deformed, 

 with scarcely any outer bark. The wood .smells very 

 strong, like tiiat of the Bermudas cedar. Branches 

 and liranchlets wand-like, and covered with a testa- 

 ceous bark. Shoots dark green, dichotomous, and 

 imbricate with scale-formcil sharp leaves. Berries 

 terminal, gloliular, middle-sized, nearly black when 

 ripe, and covered with a glaucous bloom ; con- 2.367 



taining 3 or 4 stones. Pallas adds that it greatly resembles the dwarf 

 •■savin, and that it differs principally in the greater thickness of the shoots, 



