CHAP. CXITI. 



CONl'FERiT:. J^UNl'PERUS. 



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2356 



Synonymes. Hdbhcl fructus Clus. Hist. Ic, 



31. ;■ J. major Bellon Ubs., 2. p. 162. 

 Engravings. Clus. Icon. ; Labillard. Icon. ; our 



fig. 2354. reduced to our usual scale from the 



figure of La Billardiure ; and Jigs. 2S5b. and 



2356. of the natural size, also from the same 



authority. Fig. 23.35. shows the scales of the 



fruit much opener than is usual in Juniperus; 



it is, however, acorrectcopy of the original. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, spreading, acute, three times shorter than the fruit. Nut 3-celled. 

 (Labillard.) A shrub, a native of Syria. Introduced in 1820 ; but we have not seen the plant. 



Description, SfC. Stem erect, branched. Branches 

 spreading; branchlets 3-sided. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, somewhat glaucous, with a double line above. 

 Fruit testaceous, often three times as long as the 

 leaves ; large, roundish, angular, dark blue, with a 

 glaucous bloom, and marked with six or nine retuse 

 tubercles. Nut subovate, large, with three small 

 cells; very hard, hollowed above with three lines; 

 kernel solitary, oblong, fixed by a pellicle to the 

 bottom of the cell. A native of Mount Casius, and 

 probably the same with the greater junipers observed 

 by BtUonius on Mount Taurus, which he describes as 

 rising to the height of a cypress, and bearing a sweet 

 fruit, the size and shape of an olive, which is eaten by 

 the inhabitants of the mountains. {Mart. Mil/.'^ This 

 species was seen by Desfontaines in Paris, in the nursery of M. Cels. Clusius received it from the 

 East, under the name of Habhel. 



i. 5. J. VIRGINIA^NA L. The Virginian Juniper, or Red Cedar. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1471. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 853.; Michx. Arb. For., 3. p. 42.; North 

 Amer. Syl., 3. p. 422. ; Mart. Mill., No. 6. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 415. 



Synonymes. J- major americ&na Raii Hist., 1413. ; J. maxima, &c., Sloan, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, 

 Bon Jard., ed. 1837 , Laws. Man., p. 399. 



Engravings. Michx. Arb. For., 3. t. 5. ; North Amer. Syl., 3. t. 155. ; our^g. 2357. ; and the plates 

 of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, the three growing together at the base ; 



young ones imbricated, old ones spreading. (JVi//d.) An evergreen tree ; 



a native of North America. Introduced before 1664; flowering in Maj', 



and ripening its fruit in October. 



Varieties. 



1 J. 1^. 2 hiimi/is Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — The only plant that we have seen 



is at Messrs. Loddiges's, and it is there so very small and sickl}', 



that it is difficult to form any opinion respecting it. 



I J. B. 3 carol inidna ; J. carolini^na Du Roi, Mill. Vict., No. 2 — Miller says that the lower 

 leaves of this kind are like those of the Swedish juniper ; but that the upper leaves are 

 like those of the cypress; while in the Virginian cedar all the leaves are like those of the 

 juniper. The nime is in Messrs. Loddiges's catalogue for 1837 ; but, as the plant in 

 their collection is dead, we can say nothing as to the difference between it and the species. 



Other Varieties. The red cedar varies exceedingly from seed. At White 

 Knights, where there are some hundreds of trees, some are low and spread- 



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