134 JUNIPERUS, OR 



rigid, linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, spreading, and without 

 any foot-stalks, but slightly decurrent; three-quarters of an inch 

 long, and more than one tenth of an inch wide near the base ; 

 but the lower leaves on the branches are shorter, broader, more 

 oval or elliptic, and get regularly narrower, and more linear 

 towards the summit or ends of the shoots, and terminating 

 in a very sharp hard point, slightly concave on the upper 

 side, with a small mid-rib, on each side of which is a white 

 glaucous line, convex on the under side, with a projecting 

 nerve along the back, and of a light green colour. Stem erect, 

 much branching, branches short, spreading, slightly angular, 

 inclining to cylindrical; smaller ones numerous, three-sided, 

 with the ends rather straight ; fruit-bearing ones very short, and 

 thickly covered with short, oval, sharp-pointed leaves pointing 

 upwards. Berries solitary, standing in the axil of the leaves, 

 globular or bluntly-ovate ; one inch long, and nearty the same 

 broad, with from six to nine fleshy scales, disposed vertically in 

 threes, alternately one above another, and blended or run 

 together on the surface, but projecting and very distinct, being 

 divided into distinct spaces of an angular form, deej)ly divided 

 at the apex, and of a dark purple colour, covered all over with 

 a glaucous violet-bloom, or powder, each fruit containing a single 

 large, egg-shaped, hard, bony nut, parted in the interior into three 

 divisions, each containing a single seed, but frequently one of 

 them is abortive ; the seeds require two or three years to vegetate. 



A large bush or small tree, growing 30 feet high, in the 

 northern parts of Syria, on Mount Cassio and Asia Minor, and 

 called Habhal. 



It is quite hardy, and the finest of all the Junipers. 



No. 6. Junipeeus hemispilerica, Presl, the Globular Juniper. 

 Syn. J. echinoformis, Rinz. 

 vulgaris fruticosa, Cupan. 

 Oxycedrus echinoformis, Van Houtte. 

 ,. nana hemisphasrica, Carvilre. 

 communis hemisphrerica, Pavlatore. 

 Leaves spreading, very dense, sharp-pointed, three in a whorl, 



