DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 623 



long footftalks. The female ones 'arife fmgly, 

 v/ithont a Spatha. The petals are three, white, 

 with yellov/ ungues, round, and of a thin deli- 

 cate texture. Thtjiaminn are nine, difpofed in 

 three feries ; fix of them are Ihorter than the 

 others, and curved outwardly ; the remaining 

 three have each a fetaceous fubulate appendage 

 arifing from its bafe, refembling a ftyle. The 

 flyles are fix. The capfule is coriaceous, round, 

 and has fix ceils, containing numerous^ fmall, 

 roundifh feed. 

 The plant increafes by runners, furnifhed with pen- 

 dulous gems, fupported on long footftalks, 

 Thefe gems confift of two ftipulaceous fcales, 

 folded together, within which are curioully en- 

 velop'd the embryo leaves of the future plant. 



MONADELPHIA. 



JUNIPERUS. Ge7i.pL 1134. 

 MAS. Amentia calyx fquamae. Cor. o. Stam. 5. 

 FEM. Cal. 3-partitus. Fetala 3. Styli 3. Bacca 3- 

 fperma, trlbus tuberculis calycis inasqualis. 



ammums i. JUNIPERUS foliis ternis patentibus mucronatis, 

 bacca longioribus. Sp. pi. 1470. {Ger, em. i^yz. 

 /. i.Blackwell. /. 184.J 

 The common Juniper. JngUs. 

 An-t' aiteal. Gaulis. 



In woods and heaths, and on the fides of moun- 

 tains frequent. ^ . V. 



This 



