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Fig. 51.—JUNIPERUS RIOIDA. 

 a, spray with berries ; h, winter bud and grooved leaves ; c, section of leaf, 



Juniperus Sabina, Linnaeus. (Fig. 58.) 

 Savin. 



A shrub attaining a maximum height of 15 ft., the foliage 

 emitting a disagreeable odour when bruised and having a bitter 

 taste. Ultimate branchlets slender, four-cornered, clothed with 

 4 ranks of scale leaves in opposite pairs which are overlapping, 

 ovate, shortly pointed or blunt at the apex, about o\, in. long, 

 rounded on the back, which usually bears a resin gland ; leaves 

 on older branchlets more elongated, about | in. long, long-pointed, 

 becoming brown and withered in the third or fourth year. 



