i6o CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 



apology for dragging into the arena the Juniper at 

 all. A Juniper's foliage can generally be detected 

 by the presence of two quite different -loo king kinds 

 of leaves. It is a tree that in the case of one group 

 (the Sabinse) changes, after twelve years or so, its 

 acicular, primordial, or juvenile leaves into a more 

 Cypress-looking foliage. As it, however, retains the 

 evidences of its youthful leaves in patches among 

 the adult leaves, it bequeaths a very telling evidence 

 as to its real origin which need not, and should not, 

 be lost sight of. 



Differences in Shape of Branches and Branch- 

 lets OF THE CUPRESSINEiE 



The first point about the branchlet shape of the 

 different members of this tribe that our attention is 

 called to by eminent writers is that some of them 

 are flat-leaved and others tetragonal, or, in other 

 words, equal- or four-sided. This does not refer to 

 the older branches and stems ; they are round in 

 appearance, and what is more properly described as 

 equal-sided. It is only the green leaflet-covered 

 herbaceous-looking little extremity of branchlet 

 arrangement — if we may be permitted the use of 

 a rather unbotanical use of language — to which we 

 refer, and a discerning between them as to what is 

 flat and what is round should not constitute a greater 

 difficulty of discrimination than an adjudication 

 upon the difference in shape of a lemon sole and a 

 normally nourished whiting, if displayed for our 

 examination upon a fishmonger's slab. 



To sum up, then, the Eu-Cupressi are the repre- 

 sentatives of the rounder or quadrangular, and the 

 Chamsecyparis of the flatter-leaved fraternities of 

 the Cupressineae race, and respectively also of the 



