102 JUNIPERUS ; OR 



quite straight, channelled above, and glaucous ; slightly keeled, 

 and without any gland on the under side ; light green when 

 young, but much darker when old, and seldom growing on the 

 under part of the branches. The other form, which is that of 

 the berry-bearing kind (female), has the leaves on the mature 

 plant, in opposite pairs, short, closely drawn together along the 

 branches, imbricated, and not so dense ; ovate, lanceolate, and 

 in four rows. Stem, erect, branches spreading, and furnished 

 with a great number of smaller ones, completely covered with 

 leaves. Berries, small, globular, solitary on the ends of the 

 branchlets, and of a dark brown colour, inclining to purple 

 when ripe. 



A pyramidal dense-headed tree, with the lower branches 

 rather spreading, and attaining a height of forty or fifty feet, in 

 the Islands of Bermuda, the Canary Islands, and Barbadoes. 



This is the tree which furnishes the wood from which cedar 

 pencils are made. 



It is not hardy in England. 



No. 14. JuNiPERUS EXCELSA, Biebcrstein, the Tall Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus foetidissima, Willdenow. 

 „ „ foctida squarrulosa, Spach. 



J, „ „ excelsa, Spach. 



„ ,, „ Taurica, Pallas. 



„ „ excelsa vera, Hort. 



„ Cedrus Orientalis foetidissima, Tournefort. 



Leaves, in twos, very small, glaucous grey, sharp-pointed, 

 loosely imbricated, and spreading at the points on the young 

 plants ; but short, thick, ovate, imbricated, and four-rowed, with 

 a sunken gland at the back of those on the old plants. Stem, 

 erect, thickly covered with numerous short compact branches, 

 curved upwards towards the ends, and densely clothed with 

 foliage ; branchlets, rounding, four-sided, straight, and rather 

 rigid. Berries, globular, slightly angular, half an inch in 

 diameter ; when full grown, of a deep glaucous purple, solitary, 

 and on the ends of very short branchlets. 



