THE JUNIPERS. 



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than those of J. Oxycedrus, and sharp-pointed, keeled on the 

 under side, two furrowed and glaucous grey above ; branchlets, 

 angular and slender, with the ends rather pendant. Berries, 

 very large, obovatc, or elliptic, smooth, shining, and of a deep 

 purplish black colour, when ripe, covered with a glaucous violet 

 bloom, like a small Plum. 



A large bush, growing from six to ten feet, on all the rocks 

 and sandy coasts of the Mediterranean, in Austria, Sicily, 

 Greece, and near Cadiz, in Spain, and probably on the Barbary 

 Coasts. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 7. JuNiPERus NANA, WUlcL, the Dwarf Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus Alpina, Clusius. 



minor INIontana, Bauhin. 

 Alpina Suecica, Piuknet. 

 communis Montana, Alton. 



„ nana, Loudon. 



„ Alpina, Wahlenb. 

 Sibirica, Burgsdorff. 

 nana Alpina, Endlicher. 

 Davurica, Fischer. 

 saxatilis, Pallas. 

 dealbata, Douglas. 

 Alpina minor, Booth. 



Leaves, broad, thick, somewhat adpressed, and incurved, in 

 whorls of three, deep shining green below, glaucous grey on the 

 upper surface, with a green margin, linear and blunt-pointed, 

 dense and one fourth of an inch long. Branches, numerous, flat, 

 prostrate, the smaller ones angular, rigid, and thickly clothed 

 with foliage, which all face one way, and remain on the branches 

 for years. Berries, like those of the common Juniper, but 

 much longer. 



A creeping shrub, seldom growing more than one foot high, 

 but spreading to a great distance on all sides, and quite dense. 



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