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tree. Leafets 5 7. Fruit small, variable, with a very bitter 

 kernel. Wood very tough. Pig or Hog-nut. Broom Hickory. 



ORDER CXIV. CONIFEREvE. Juss. Lincl. 



Floioers monoecious or dioecious. STERILE monandrous 

 or monadelphous, collected in an ament about a common ra- 

 chis ; anthers 2 or mariy-lobed, bursting outwardly ; often 

 terminated by a crest, which is an uncovered portion of the 

 scale, out of which each stamen is formed. FERTILE usually 

 in strobiles or cones, sometimes solitary. Ovary none (in the 

 solitary flower,) or spread open (in the cone) and resembling 

 a flat scale, destitute of style or stigma, arising from the axil 

 of a membranous bract ; ovules exposed ; in the cones in 

 pairs on the face of the ovary, inverted ; in the solitary flow- 

 er erect. Fruit a solitary naked seed, or a cone. Seeds with 

 a hard crustaceous integument ; embryo in the midst of oily 

 albumen ; radicle next the apex of the seed, having an organic 

 connexion with the albumen. 



Trees or shrubs, with a branched trunk, abounding in resin. 

 Leaves with the veins parallel to each other. 



1. JUNIPERUS. Linn. 



Dioecious, rarely monoecious. STERILE FL. Ament 

 ovate ; scales verticillate, peltate. Anthers 4 S, 1-celled. 

 FERTILE FL. Ament globose ; scales 3, concave, coadunate. 

 Stigma gaping. Berry with 3 bony 1-seeded nuts, surround- 

 ed with the united and fleshy scales. 



Dioecia. Monadelphia. 



1. J. communis Linn. : leaves ternate, spreading, mucronate, longer 

 than the berry. 



b. deprcssa Pursh: stems prostrate. 



HAB. Rocky banks of streams. Can. and N. S. May. T?. 

 A shrub with prostrate and spreading branches, forming large 

 beds. Leaves sharply mucronate, glaucous above, shining be- 

 low. Berries purple. Medicinal. Big. Med. Bot. iii. 44. Juniper 



2. J. virginiana Linn. : trunk arboreous ; upper leaves imbricated in 

 four rows, ovate, pungently acute. 



HAB. Woods. Can. to Geor. May. 1?. A middle-sized tree, 

 with horizontal branches. Berries covered with a blue powder. 

 Wood light and very durable. Leaves resembling Savin in 

 their medicinal properties. Red Cedar, 



3. J. prostrata Mich. : stems prostrate, creeping ; leaves imbricate, 



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