138 JUNIPERUS, OR 



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or twelve feet high, with rather an open pendulous appearance, 

 the berries of which are used for flavouring gin. 



It is found growing on the Apennines at an elevation of 

 3000 feet, in the South of France, and is common in Spain 

 and Portugal, and the countries bordering the Mediterranean, 

 growing on the sea-coast. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 11. Juniperus rigida, Siebold, the Stiff- leaved Japan 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus communis, Thunberg. 



Leaves in threes, rather distantly placed, sessile, widely ex- 

 tended, rigid, quite straight, very narrow, linear, bluntly three- 

 cornered, and with a long, slender, pallid, spiny point ; tiiey 

 are channelled on the upper side, prominently and bluntly 

 keeled on the under one, obtuse on the margins, of a 

 pale glossy green colour, and three-quarters of an inch long. 

 Branches terete, widely spreading, and covered with a smooth, 

 light brown bark. Branchlets rather short, not very dense, 

 prominently and bluntly three-sided, and covered with a yel- 

 lowish bark. Berries globular, small, sessile, solitary, and of a 

 dark-brown or blackish colour, thickly covered with a violet 

 glaucous bloom, and produced laterally in great abundance on 

 the short branchlets, which are covered with oval-pointed short 

 leaves. Seeds oblong, angularly compressed, three-sided, and 

 mostly in twos and threes, but sometimes singly in each berry. 



This kind forms a handsome small tree, from 15 to 25 feet 

 high, on the mountains in the Island of Nippon, in Japan, and 

 is called " Moro," or " Sonora Mats " (slender or drooping 

 Juniper), by the Japanese. 



No. 12. Juniperus rufescens, Link, the Small, Shining, Red- 

 berried Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus Oxycedrus Taurica, Hort. 

 Taurica, Stra/ngways. m : 



