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b.— The Bermuda Cedar (Juniperus Bermudiana Linné) ; its 
History. 
Figure 41. Prats LXVIII; Figure 2. Puate LXXIII. 
When the Bermudas were first visited by Europeans, all the 
islands that had any soil upon them, including most of the smaller 
islets, were thickly covered with the cedar. Even to this day, much 
of the beauty of the landscape depends upon the cedars that still 
densely clothe many of the small islands, adding much to their 
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Figure 41.—Bermuda Cedar: a, branchlet with young berries; b, with larger 
berries ; c, a branchlet with male flowers; d, a berry slightly enlarged. 
After Hemsley. 
apparent height and size, and contrasting, by their dark green, 
graceful foliage, with the surrounding rocks and water. After these 
small islands are stripped of their cedars, they at once look rough, 
rocky, and barren. 
The poet, Thomas Moore, when he wrote at these islands, in 1804, 
well appreciated this effect of the cedars on the landscape, and espe- 
cially of those that crowned the small islets in St. George’s harbor. 
(See p. 446.) 
This cedar is by far the most abundant and most important of the 
native trees of the Bermudas. It is almost restricted to these islands, 
and until recently was not known from any other locality, for it is 
