CHAP. CXIII. 



CONI'FER^. JUNI'PERUS. 



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the different sexes : in the male, they are decurrent, with a short awl-shaped 



point, and closely 

 iinbricatedjwith here 

 and there a longer 

 needle-shaped leaf 

 on the branches. 

 This kind, though 

 principally bearing 

 male catkins, has 

 sometimes on the 

 tips of the branch- 

 lets a few female 

 flowers. The female 

 tree is covered with 

 berries all over the 

 branches, except the ( j^^ 

 outer and younger <i^^^ 

 shoots; and the /^^ 

 leaves, like those of [(^^ 

 J. Oxjcedrus, are 

 sharp and needle- 

 shaped, spreading 

 outwards from the base, and are almost as long as the berries. The 

 berries are globular, more bitter than those of the common juniper, 

 blackish when ripe, but appearing blue from the white meal that covers them ; 

 peduncled, as it were, by standing on a leafless thickened branchlet, and con- 

 taining one or two stones. It is a native of Siberia, but is totally different from 

 J. lycia. (Pall. Boss., ii. p. 13.) There are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



1 9. J. PHCENi'cEA L. The Phoenician Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1471. ; Willd. Sp., 4. p. 855. ; Mart. Mill., No. 9. ; Lam. Diet. Encyc, 

 2. p. 628. ; Desf. Fl. Atlan., 2. p. 371. ; Pall. Ross., 2. p. 14. 57. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., 5. p. 4J5. ; N. 

 Du Ham., 6. p. 47. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; Bon Jard., ed. 1837. 



Synonymes. J. mijor Dioscoridis Clus. Hist., 38. ; Cfedrus phoenicea mfedia Lob. Icon., 2. p. 221. ; 

 C. l^cia retilsa J. Bauh. Hist, 1. lib. 9. p. 300. ; C. fblio Cupressi major, &c., C. Bauh. Pin., 487., 

 Tourn. Inst., 5SS., Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 140.; Oxycedrus lycin Dod. Pempt., 853.; Genevrier de 

 Phenicie, Fr. ; dichtnadliger Wachholder, Gcr. 



engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. t. 52. ; Pall. Ross., t. 56. ; N. Du Ham., 6. pL 17. ; and our 

 Jig. 2367. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves in threes, obliterated, imbricated, obtuse. (Willd.) 

 A native of the south of Europe, Russia, and the Levant ; cultivated in 

 Britain in 1683, and flowering in May and June. 



Description, 8fc. The Phoenician juniper is a shrub, the trunk of which is 

 loaded with numerous branches, disposed so as to form a pyramid, and both 

 trunk and branches are covered with a reddish brown bark. The young 

 branches are slight, entirely covered with very small leaves, which are dis- 

 posed in threes opposite to each other, closely covering the surface of the 

 branches, and laid one upon another like scales. These leaves are oval, ob- 

 tuse, somewhat channeled, and convex on the back, perfectly smooth. On 

 some of the branches, a few sharp linear leaves are found, which are about 

 3 lines long, and quite open. The male and female flowers are sometimes 

 found on the same tree, but they are generally on different trees. The form 

 and disposition of the male and female flowers closely resemble those oi J. 

 ^abina. The berries are about the size of a pea, and of a pale yellow when 

 ripe, which is not till the end of two entire years. They generally contain 

 9 bony seeds in each, of an irregular oval, slightly compressed and angular : 

 the pulp is dry and fibrous, in the middle of which are 3 or 4 bladders 

 filled with a sort of resinous fluid. The Phoenician juniper was first cul- 

 tivated in Britain by Mr. James Sutherland, of the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, in 1683. It is now occasionally to be met with in collections ; but is 



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