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A pyramidal dense-headed tree, with the lower branches 

 rather spreading, and attaining a height of forty or fifty feet, 

 in the Islands of Bermuda, the Canary Islands, and Barbadoes. 



This is the tree which furnishes the wood from which cedar 

 pencils are made. 



It is not hardy in England. 



No. 15. Juniperus Davurica, Pallas, the Daurian Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus foetida davurica, Spach. 

 The leaves are of two kinds, and either opposite or in threes, 

 and differ in the different sexes ; those on the male plant are 

 very small, decurrent, closely imbricated in four rows, convex 

 on the back, with an oblong gland in the centre, and a short 

 point ; while those on the female plant are in threes, linear, 

 awl-shaped, quite open, spreading, sharp-pointed, and thickly 

 placed along the branchlets ; they are channelled and whitish 

 on the upper part, convex on the back, and mostly furnished 

 with a linear-shaped gland in the centre, and, when fully ex- 

 panded, a quarter of an inch long. Branches terete, forked, 

 and wide-spreading. Branchlets somewhat long, slender, 

 quadriform, much extended, or somewhat pendulous, and 

 closely covered with imbricated, ovate-rhomboid leaves in four 

 rows. Berries small, solitary, lateral, somewhat globular, or 

 subturbinate, very bitter, and of a blackish colour when ripe, 

 covered with a violet glaucous bloom, and two lines in diameter. 

 Seeds ovate-oblong, and mostly single, but frequently in twos 

 and threes in the same berry. 



A low, decumbent shrub, with the sexes on different plants, 

 found on the Altai and Daurian Mountains, in Siberia. The 

 kind generally known in collections under the name of J. 

 Daurica, is the same as J. Canadensis. 



No. 16. Juniperus densa, Gordon, the Dense or Bushy 



Indian Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus recurva densa, Hort. 

 nana, Hort. 



