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If this be the case, one cannot then satisfactorily account 

 for J. hemispherica, which, according to Elwes and Henry 

 (''Trees of Great Britain," vol. vii., 1 402), is found on Mount 

 Etna, Calabria, Greece, and Algiers. Beissner (ii. 619) 

 gives its habitat as " Mountains of Sicily, Greece, and 

 North Africa, and Presly adds to these certain mountains 

 in the Apennines near the Abruzzi, where it is found in 

 the subalpine regions. But var. nana is also found 

 (Beiss., ii. 618) in the subalpine regions of the Apennines, 

 Thrace, and Macedonia, and in that case /. hemispherica 

 can hardly be termed, as Adamovic terms it, a mere 

 geographical form of J. communis nana, if, as would 

 appear, they both grow in the same localities ; and since 

 J. hemispherica differs from J. communis at least as 

 much as J. oxycedrus, Linn, (which is given specific rank), 

 differs from J. cedrus, Webb, I have preferred to follow 

 Presly, Schow, and some of the earlier authorities in 

 regarding this juniper as a species. It is very rare in 

 cultivation, J. communis echinceformis usually doing duty 

 for it. 



J. conferta, Pari. ("Nov. Conif.," 1863). 



Syn. : J. litoralis, Maxim. (" Mel. Biol.," vi. 375,1868). 



Branchlets greeny- white ; second year, red-brown. 

 General appearance not unlike that of J. cedrus, only more 

 compact and more spreading. 



Leaves all acicular, about i\ by ^V inch ; upper side very 

 concave; broad white stomatic band, partly hidden by 

 broad incurving green margins. Under side green, very 

 convex; groove doubtful. Leaves are straight, rigid, 

 and end in a long, very sharp point, and are attached to 

 stem of branchlet by raised, ridged pulvini, the ridge 

 extending from base of leaf to below and between the 

 bases of the two leaves in the lower whorl. Leaves in 

 whorls of threes, almost covering branchlet, pointing 

 forward, scarcely spreading. Fruit, three-seeded. 



