CHAP. CXIII. 



CONl FER^. JUNl'PERUS. 



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brown, and splits off in strings. The leaves are extremely small, and always imbricate. The 

 berries are smaller than those of the Bermudas cedar, and are of a light brown colour when ripe. 

 It is a native of the West Indies, and also, Pursh says, on the authority of Michaux, of the coast 

 of Florida. It was cultivated in England in 1759, by Miller, but we have not seen the plant. 



• J* 17. J", chine'nsis L. The Chinese Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Syst., 894. ; Reich., 4. 277. ; Mant, 127. ; Lour. Coch., 636. 

 Engravings. Our figs. 2372. and 2373. 



Spec. Char. Leaves decurrent, imbricate-spreading, clustered ; stem leaves 

 in threes, branch leaves in fours. ( Willd.) 



Description, 4'c. According to Martyn's Miller, Loureiro describes the 

 Chinese juniper as a shrub of 3 ft. in height, with twisted and very spreading 

 branches. Leaves awl- 

 shaped, hardish, dark green : 

 according to Linnaeus, 

 spreading, green on both 

 sides, more clustered than 

 in the other sorts, fastened 

 at the base, scarcely pun- 

 gent, and extremely distinct 

 by the density of the leaves. 

 (Mant.) There are two 

 plants in the Horticultural 

 2372 Society's Garden bearing 



the name of/, sinensis, male 

 and female, 12 ft. and 10 ft. high. The leaves are green, short, and imbri- 

 cated; the fruit rough, angular, and dry; and the plants do not accord, in 

 some respects, with the species described by Loureiro. Specimens of the 

 plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden were, however, compared by Pro- 

 fessor Don with the Linnsean specimens, and he is of opinion that it is correctly 

 named. 



J. c. 2 Smithu. A species of Juniperus in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden {fig. 2374.), without a name, and said to have been 

 received from Smith of Ayr, about 1823 or before, bears a close 

 resemblance to J. chinensis, but the fruit is rather more 

 angular. The plant in the garden is of vigorous growth, 8 ft. 

 or 10ft. high; it produces both male and female blossoms, 

 and ripens fruit. There can be no doubt that it is not a 

 European plant ; nor are there any species at all resembling 

 it from North America. We have been informed that there 

 is a species in some of the Scotch nurseries raised from Nepal 

 seeds, and commonly called J^uniperus nepalensis, which bears 

 so close a resemblance to Mr. Smith's plant, as to leave little 

 doubt of their identity. Mr. Smith, to whom we have written 

 on the subject, can give us no satisfactory information ; and 

 it even appears to us doubtful if the plant in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden was received from him. We have 

 ventured to give it a name, merely to prevent it from being 

 lost sight of; and because we should wish to see such a vigo- 



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rous-growing healthy species propagated, and introduced into collections. 



App. L Kinds of 3uniperus mentioned in BooJcs^ but of "which 

 very little is known. 



J. fcetidissima Willd. Sp. PI. approaches J. excelsa, but has not been yet introduced. 



J. cape'iisis Lam. Diet., p. 626., Desf. Hist, des Arb., &c., Dum. Bot. Cult., 6. p. 444., has an 

 upright trunk, and numerous branches, which are short and close together. The leaves, at the 

 extremity of the branches, are in threes, linear, sharply pointed, and glaucous ; theothers are smaller 

 and imbricated. Lamarck mentions having sent this species to Kew ; but it is not included in the 

 Hortus Kewensis. Desfontaines says that the species is rare and little known, and that it requires 

 protection during winter. 



