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forming in consequence a very straight and compact pyramid, 

 with the leaves closer together along the branchlets, much 

 shorter, and less spreading, and with the bark of the branches 

 much darker in colour. 



A very compact variety, with a pyramidal-shaped head, found 

 indigenous on the Pyrenees and Apennines, at an elevation of 

 5,000 feet. 



No. 4. JuNiPERUS DRUPACEA, LaMll, the Plum-fruited Juniper. 

 Syn. Arceuthos drupacea, Antoine. 

 „ Juniperus latifolia arborea, Tournefort. 

 „ „ major, Bellonius. 



Leaves, in whorls of three, thickly set all round the branches, 

 rigid, linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, sj^reading, and without 

 any footstalks, but slightly decurrent ; three quarters of an inch 

 long, and more than one-tenth of an inch wide near the base ; 

 but the lower leaves on the branches are shorter, broader, more 

 oval or elliptic, and get regularly narrower, and more linear 

 towards the summit or ends of the shoots, and terminating 

 in a very sharp hard point, slightly concave on the upper 

 side, with a small mid-rib, on each side of which is a white 

 glaucous line, convex on the under side, with a projecting 

 nerve along the back, and of a light green colour. Stem, erect, 

 much branching, branches short, spreading, slightly angular, 

 inclining to cylindrical ; smaller ones numerous, three-sided, 

 with the ends rather straight ; fruit-bearing ones very short, and 

 thickly covered with short, oval, sharp-pointed leaves pointing 

 upwards. Berries, solitary, standing in the axil of the leaves, 

 globular or bluntly-ovate ; one inch long, and nearly the same 

 broad, with from six to nine fleshy scales, disposed vertically in 

 threes, alternately one above another, and blended or run 

 together on the surface, but projecting and very distinct, being- 

 divided into distinct spaces of an angular form, deeply divided 

 at the apex, and of a dark purple colour, covered all over with a 

 glaucous violet bloom, or powder, each fruit containing a single, 

 large, egg-shaped, hard bony nut, parted in the interior into 



