JUNIPERUS SABINA. 189 



Juniperus Sabina, 



A shrub of very variable habit and dimensions ; occasionally arbores- 

 cent in southern Europe with a straight erect trunk 10 15 feet high. 

 Branches spreading or ascending, clothed with red-brown bark that 

 peels off in thin papery flakes ; ramification pseudo - distichous. 

 Branchlets relatively short, close-set, pale reddish brown, the latest 

 formed tetrastichous, pinnately divided and falling off the third or 

 fourth year. Leaves in decussate pairs, glandular ; on the axial 

 growths subulate-oblong, mucronate, concrescent ; on the lateral herbaceous, 

 shoots smaller, scale-like, rhomboidal, sub-acute, closely imbricated or 

 concrescent, dull dark green. Staminate flowers very numerous, 

 terminal 011 short lateral branchlets of the preceding year, oval, pale 

 yellow, consisting of about ten anthers. Fruits small, solitary, sub- 

 globose, blackish brown with a bluish glaucescence when mature and 

 containing one four seeds. 



Juniperus Sabina, Linnaeus, Sp. Plant. II. 1039 (1753). London, Arb et Frut. 

 Brit. IV. 2499, with figs. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 22. Carriere, Traite Conif. 

 ed. II. 23. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 483 (exclu. American habitat). 

 Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 150 Boissier, Fl. orient. V. 708. Willkomm, Forstl. 

 Fl. ed. II. 254. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 107, with figs, (exclu. Siberia). Masters in 

 Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 214. And many others. 



Eng. Savin Juniper. Fr. Genevrier Sabine. Germ. Gemeiner Sadebaum,. 

 Gemeiner Sevenbaum. Ital. Sabina. 



var. humilis. 



A dwarf, occasionally prostrate, shrub with numerous spreading 

 branches and close-set ascending or erect branchlets much ramified, 

 the latest formed shoots short, slender, pinnately branched and clothed 

 with scale-like leaves of a brighter green than the common form, and 

 among which some acicular, pungent, spreading leaves are sparingly inter- 

 mixed. 



J. Sabina humilis, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 23 (in part). Beissner, Nadel- 

 holzk. 110. J. Sabina nana, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 23. Gordon, Pinet. 

 ed II. 150. And others. 



var. tamariscifolia. 



A procumbent or spreading shrub, more vigorous in its growth and 

 of larger dimensions than the variety humilis. Leaves dimorphic ; on 

 the older part of the branchlets in whorls of three, awl-shaped, pungent, 

 adnate at the base, free at the tip, bluish or grey-green ; on the younger 

 growths in decussate pairs, concrescent, scale-like and bright green. 

 Fruits smaller than in the common form. 



J. Sabina tamariscifolia, Aiton in Hort. Kew. ed. II. V. 414 (1813).* London, 

 Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2499, with figs. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 23. 

 Beissner, Nadelholzk. 110. And others. 



var. variegata. 



Differs from the common form in its dwarfer and denser habit and 

 in having the tips of the youngest growths cream- white ; the plant- 

 has thence a speckled and checkered appearance which renders it a. 

 useful subject for the rock-garden. 

 J. Sabina variegata, Hort. 



* Referred by Endlicher to Juniperus thurifera (Linn.). 



