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does not produce male and female flowers on the same 

 tree. The Cypresses, which are always monoecious, 

 are much more accommodating in this respect of 

 disclosure of identity. 



Mr. E. Wilson has sent back from Japan (1914) a 

 quantityof theseedof the J. Littoralis (or J. Conferta), 

 and in some cases they are being given a trial trip 

 by certain inland growers. Whether they will sigh 

 for those sea-shores — with w^hich their name implies 

 association — eventually, as did Tennyson's cedars for 

 their native Lebanon, is one of those problems that 

 we must leave for the futurists to cope with. So far, 

 there seems a certain lack of midstream directness 

 about the relations of these various Junipers, vouch- 

 safed to us by the High and Mighties, that hardly 

 helps to guide struggles on the straight current of a 

 sure course. 



We complete the subject of Junipers with this 

 consoling reflection : that here there is a wide field 

 open for the close student to occupy an industrious 

 mind upon. When he has achieved an intimate 

 acquaintance and a thorough mastery over all the 

 Junipers all the w^orld over, he will find himself 

 occupying a very unique position among the savants 

 of his art. To us, such a mastery of detail looks very 

 like one of those puzzles at which " the world grows 

 pale." 



]^ote. — For those who \vish to pursue further the intricacies and 

 ramifications of the family tree in the Juniperinae Tribal History, we 

 append some other names of species not commented upon here, for 

 one, either, or all of the f ollo\sing reasons : 



(i) That they are species that have been tried and found unsuitable 

 to our climate, 



(2) That as a species their individuality is still undetermined, and 



hardly so far emerged from the regions of controversy 

 among eminent authorities. 



(3) That they have only been recently discovered, or imperfectly 



described. 



(4) That they are discarded synonyms. 



