98 JUNIPERUS ; OR 



It is found in England and Scotland, on mountains, on the 

 Alps, seldom below 5,000 feet, but up to 9,000 feet of elevation, 

 on the higher summits of the Apennines, and occurs on the 

 Carpathian Mountains, in Lapland as far as the Northern 

 regions, on the Altai Mountains, in Greenland, and the higher 

 mountains of Portugal, and on the Alpine regions and snow line 

 of the Pyrenees. This is a very distinct kind from Juniperus 

 Canadensis, with which many writers confound it. 



No. 8. Juniperus oblonga, Bieberstein, the Caucasian Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus Caucasica, Fischer. 

 „ „ interrupta, Wendland. 



„ „ reflex a, Hort. 



J, „ communis oblonga, Loudon. 



„ „ „ Caucasica, Endlicher. 



„ „ Thuiaecarpus juniperinus, Trautv. 



Leaves, in whorls of three, long, narrow, rigid, lance-shaped, 

 acute-pointed, spreading and pointing outwards, bright green 

 on one side, and glaucous grey on the other, distant and without 

 footstalks. Branches, straggling, very numerous, and curved 

 upwards at the points, with the branchlets slender, branching, 

 and drooping. Berries, very small, oblong, in threes round the 

 stem, without any footstalks, of a purplish colour, covered with 

 a glaucous bloom, and divided on the top with two or three 

 grooves, radiating from the centre, each fruit containing either 

 two or three hard bony seeds, in a dry spongy flesh. 



A large straggling, many-stemmed bush, growing from four 

 to five feet high, but covering a large space along the ground. 



It is found on the sub-Alpine Mountains in the "Western 

 Caucasus, on the Talusch Mountains, in South "Western Russia, 

 and on the mountains of Taurica. 



It is a very handsome and distinct kind, and certainly not a 

 variety of the common Juniper, as supposed by some writers, 

 but nearly related to Siebold's Juniperus rigida.^ 



