136 JUNIPERUS, OR 



A large bush, growing from ten to fifteen feet, on all the 

 rocks and sandy coasts of the Mediterranean, in Austria, Sicily, 

 Greece, and near Cadiz, in Spain, and on the Barbary Coasts, 

 and Algiers. 



It is quite hardy, and one of the finest. 



No. 8. Juniperus nana, Willd., the Dwarf Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus Alpina, Clusius. 



minor Montana, BauJiin. 



Alpina Suecica, Plukenet 



communis Montana, Alton. 



nana, Loudon. 



Alpina, Wahlenb. 



Sibirica, Burgsdorff. 



nana Alpina, Endlicher. 



saxatilis, Pallas. 



Alpina minor, Booth. 



Leaves broad, thick, somewhat adpressed, and incurved, in 

 whorls of three, deep shining green below, glaucous gray on the 

 upper surface, with a green margin, linear and blunt-pointed, 

 dense, and one fourth of an inch long. Branches numerous, flat, 

 prostrate, the smaller ones angular, rigid, and thickly clothed 

 with foliage, which all face one way, and remain on the branches 

 for years. Berries like those of the common Juniper, but 

 much longer. 



A creeping shrub, seldom growing more than one foot high, 

 but spreading to a great distance on all sides, and quite dense. 



It is found in England and Scotland, on mountains, on the 

 Alps, seldom below 5000 feet, but up to 9000 feet of elevation, 

 on the higher summits of the Apennines, and occurs on the 

 Carpathian Mountains, in Lapland as far as the Northern 

 regions, on the Altai Mountains, in Greenland, and the higher 

 mountains of Portugal, and on the Alpine regions and snow 

 line of the Pyrenees. This is a very distinct kind from 

 Juniperus Canadensis, with which many writers confound it. 



