THE JUNIPER. 133 



JuNrPERUS communis compressa, Carriere. 



Syn. Juniperus Hibernica compressa, Hort. 

 Hispanica, Presl, not Miller. 



compressa, Rinz. 



communis Hispanica, Lawson. 



Suecica pyramidalis, Manetti. 



This variety is easily distinguished from the Irish Juniper by 

 its branches being very much shorter, slenderer, and all erect, 

 and forming in consequence a very straight and compact pyra- 

 mid, with the leaves closer together along the branchlets, much 

 shorter, less spreading, and with the bark of the branches 

 much darker in colour. 



A small, compact variety, with a dense, pyramidal-shaped 

 head, found indigenous on the Pyrenees and Apennines, at an 

 elevation of 5000 feet. 



No. 4. Juniperus conferta, Parlatore, the Crowded-leaved 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus littoralis, Maximo. 



Leaves thickly placed in threes, linear, somewhat three- 

 sided, rigid, openly imbricated, sharp-pointed, and half an inch 

 long, and half a line wide ; with the upper side channelled and 

 longitudinally marked with white, and the under one convex 

 and keeled. Berries exactly globose, quite smooth, and of a 

 tawny-brown colour, thickly covered with a violet glaucous 

 bloom, and rather more than one-third of an inch long and the 

 same broad. 



It is found at Hakodadi, in Japan, and resembles Juniperus 

 rigida ; but differs from it in having the leaves more crowded, 

 grosser and triangular, and the berries much larger. 



No. 5. Juniperus drupacea, Labill, the Plum-fruited Juniper. 

 Syn. Arceuthos drupacea, Antoine. 



Juniperus latifolia arborea, Tournefovt. 

 major, Bellonius. 



Leaves, in whorls of three, thickly set all round the branches, 



