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A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



adult branchlets, but occasionally on branchlets bearing the 

 juvenile type of leaves. Fruit ripening in the second year, 

 brown, conspicuously glaucous, sub-globose, or top-shaped, \ in. 

 in diameter, composed of 4-8 scales. Seeds 2-5, broadly ovoid, 

 grooved. 



Fig. 51.— JUNIPERUS CHINENSIS. 



a, spray with scale-like foliage and berries ; b, branchlet with scale leaves ; c, spray with both 

 scale- and needle like foliage and many male cones ; d, needle leaves in whorls of three ; e, section 

 of needle leaf. 



Var. albo-variegata, Veitch. 



Var. variegata, Fortune ; var. argentea, Gordon ; var. argentea-varie- 

 gata, Rehder. 



Branchlets and leaves often creamy white at the tips. 



