76 DWARF AND SLOW-GBOWING CONIFEBS 



Here one must mention — 



J. horizontalis, Monch (" Meth. pi. Hort. et Agr.," 699, 

 1794). 



Syn.: J. prostrata, Pers. (1807). 

 J. Sabina prostrata, Loud. 

 J. repens, Nutt. 

 J. Hudsonica, Forb. 



This, the American form of J. Sabina, is widely distri- 

 buted over North America from the coast of Massa- 

 chusetts to British Columbia (Sargt., "Bull.," No. 18). 

 Unhke most junipers, this form is found on non-calcareous 

 soils. It has long prostrate stems and soon spreads into a 

 fine mass. Its fohage is very glaucous green-blue. Pro- 

 fessor Sargent sent me cuttings of one particularly fine- 

 coloured form, its foliage being steel blue. 



J. squamata, Buch. -Hamilton (in Lambert, "Genus 

 11, 17). 

 Syn. : J. densa, Gordon. 



J. recurva sqvximata, Pari. 

 J. Morisinocola, Hayata. 



Old branchlets red-brown with dead red-brown leaves. 

 Young branchlets green. Leaves acicular; densely 

 imbricated in whorls of threes, appressed or sHghtly 

 spreading; curved, tapering to acute sharp-pointed apex. 

 Upper side concave, white with faint green midrib; 

 under side convex with a median furrow from base to 

 near apex. Fruit red-brown to black; seed soHtary and 

 ovoid. 



A broad low shrub with long procumbent stems 

 from which appear occasional smaller upright branches. 

 From seed collected by Wilson (No. 985) I have a perfectly 

 erect form throwing up several leaders, of which the centre 

 one is the tallest ; and from the same seed I have a perfectly 

 prostrate form which differs from the type sufficiently 

 to be described. 



