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AKBOKETUM AND FKUTICETtM. PAKT JIJ 



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much less common than so fine a shrub deserves to be. The plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, after being 10 years planted, is 10 ft. high. 

 In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, it is 19 ft. high, and the 

 diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6d. 

 each ; and at Bollwyller, 3 francs. 



m. *~ 10. J. (p.) ly'cia L. The Lycian Juniper, 



Identification. Lin. Sp., U71.; WiUd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 855. ; Pall. Ross., ii. p. 14. t. 56. ; Ait. Hort. 



Kew., V. p. 415. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Si/nonymes. J. p. (3 lycia N. Du Ham.,v\. p. 47. ; C&drus phcenicea altera Pllnii et Theophrastj 



Lob Ic , ii. p 221 ; C. folio Cupressi, tSrc, C. Bauh. Pin., p. 487. 

 Eifravings. Pall. Ross., t. 56. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 17. ; and our j?^. 2367., aniijig. 2368. from Pallas. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, imbricate on all sides, ovate, obtuse. 

 ( Willd.) Miller describes the Lycian cedar as having its branches " growing 

 erect, and covered with a reddish brown bark. 

 Leaves small, obtuse. Male flowers at the ends of 

 the branches, in a conical anient ; and the fruit single 

 from the axils below them, on the same branch. 

 Berries large, oval, and, when ripe, brown." Ac- 

 cording to Pallas, ./. lycia is an entirely prostrate 

 shrub, with the trunk branching from the very 

 bottom, and often thicker than the human arm. 

 This, and the branches, are often variously deformed, 

 with scarcely any outer bark. The wood smells very 

 strong, like that of the Bermudas cedar. Branches 

 and branchlets wand-like, and covered with a testa- 

 ceous bark. Shoots dark green, dichotomous, and 

 imbricate with scale-formed sharp leaves. Berries 

 terminal, globular, middle-sized, nearly black when 

 ripe, and covered with a glaucous bloom ; con- 2367 



taining 3 or 4 stones. Pallas adds that it greatly resembles the dwarf 

 savin, and that it differs principally in the greater thickiies.'i of the shoots. 



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