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COXIFERJi:. (PINE FAMILY.) 



the second year, scales angular-orbicular, umbonute, touching at 

 border, at length dehiscent. Nutlets under each scale numerous, in 

 several rows, ovoid to oblong, bony, often winged — Evergreen trees, 

 with a strong scent, and scale-like, appressed-imbricated leaves, and 

 very durable wood. 



C. sciupervireiis, L. Cypress. Sa/'u. 

 SherMn. 5 5 to 25 ; comus conical-pyramidal or 

 loosely ovoid, the branches more or less spread- 

 ing, the twigs nearly in two rows, somewhat 

 tetragonal. Leaves scale-lil-e, opposite, in 4 rows, 

 ovate, obtuse, convex and grooved at back. 

 Staminate catiins oblong - cylindrical ; 2^^si^ttate 

 globular, at length horizontal; galbules globu- 

 lar, .02 to .03 in diameter, leaden-grey — Spring 

 — Middle mountain zones. 



Fig. 838. 



Scales of C. semper 

 virens, with num- 

 erous naked ovules at 

 its base. 



The compact variety, with a cylindrico- 

 conical comus, is everywhere cultivated under the name of Saw in the 

 cemeteries, especially by the Muslims. 



2. JUIVIPERlJIi*, L. Juniper. 



Flowers dioecious or monoecious on separate branches. Staminate 

 catJcins globular or ovate, scales decussate or ternate, loosely imbricated, 

 nearly orbicular, bearing o-G, globular anther-cells on their lower surface. 

 Pistillate catlins subtended by a few, a2:)pressed, sterile bracts, and 

 composed of 4-8, decussate or ternately whorled, fleshy, coalescent 

 scales, each bearing a single, gourd-shaped, erect ovule. Galbules 

 fleshy, indehiscent, ribbed by the prominent margins of the scales, and 

 furnished at tip with a depressed, triangular areola. Seeds 1-3, rarely 

 4-8, erect, angled, wingless, separate or rarely coalesced, bony. 



* Twigs triquetrous. 



Leaves ternately wJwrled, jointed at lose, needle- 

 like, 'pvicldy. 



1, jr. clrupacea, Labill. 5 Difrdn. 5 to 10; comus pyrauiidal, 

 twigs spreading. Leaves rigid, spreading or reflexed, oblong to linear- 

 lanceolate, .01 to .015 long, channeled at upper surface, keeled at 

 lower. Staminate cathins usually solitary in axils, nearly sessile, ovate, 

 .003 long. Galbules globular, .02 to .03 in diameter, reddish with a 

 2Mrple\)\oom\ scales 7-8, in 3 rows, margin prominent; seeds connate 

 into a woody, 3-celled sort of capsule — August — Middle to sub- 

 alpine Lebanon, Hermon, Cassius, Amauus, Akher Dagh, and 

 northward. 



2. J. inacrocarpa, S. et S. 5 5 Branches spreading. Leaves 

 ternate, spreading, linear-lanceolate, .01 to ,02 long, bisulcate at upper 

 surface, keeled at lower. Staminate cathins sessile in upper axils, 

 solitary. Galbules globular, .01 to .015 in diameter, reddish to Z/^ac/Jj/sA- 

 Iroicn^ with a lluisli bloom, rarely elliptical ; scales 3, rarely 6, in 3 

 rows, imbricated, margins free at tip ; seeds 3 or less — Autumn — 

 Syrian coast ; lower zone of Lebanon. 



Differs from next by more slender branches, usually longer leaves, 

 blacki8h-brown galbules nearly twice as large, scattered, not crowded. 



