120 JUNIPERUS ; OR 



slightly spreading at the points, of a shining lively green colour, 

 and with a little circular sunken pit or gland on the back of the 

 leaves. Branches, numerous, slender, and curved ; branchlets, 

 roundish, four-sided, thickly covered with small scale-like 

 foliage, and bright green. Berries, exactly round, tolerably large, 

 twice the size of those of the common Chinese Juniper (Juni- 

 perus Chinensis), smooth, and of a violet glaucous colour. 



This species, according to Fortune, grows to the height of 

 thirty or forty feet in the northern parts of China, forming a 

 stately tree. It has long been cultivated in England under the 

 name of Juniperus Chinensis Smithii. 



Juniperus sphcerica glauca. Fortune, is a very diiFerent kind 

 from the above, and of which little is at present known. 



No. 32. Juniperus tetragona, Schlecht, the Tetragonal 

 Juniper. 



Leaves, on the adult plants, in pairs, opposite, fleshy, obtuse, 

 egg-shaped, thickest at the points, very closely imbricated, half 

 to three-fourths of a line long,*and regularly and closely in four 

 rows, but rather distant when old and withered on the branches ; 

 of a dull green colour, slightly glaucous when young. Branches, 

 spreading, nearly flat, with the ends turned upwards ; smaller 

 ones, short, and thickly covered with the truly four-sided 

 branchlets ; branchlets, straight, regularly four-sided, very 

 numerous, stiff", spread out, and the fruit-bearing ones slightly 

 curved, and very dense at the ends of the branches. Berries, 

 solitary, about the size of a small pea, globular, with a few scars, 

 and thin scales on the surface ; of a dark purple colour, with a 

 slight glaucous bloom on the surface, and. three or four lines in 

 diameter. 



A beautiful low-spreading shrub, growing from four to five 

 feet high, plentiful on the mountains of Mexico, particularly on 

 the mountains from Real del Monte to Chico, at an elevation of 

 from 10,000 to 11,000 feet. It does not produce Sanderac. 



It is quite hardy. 



