146 JUNIPERUS, OR 



are very small, ovate, somewhat obtuse at the apex, concave on 

 the back, with a sunken gland in the centre, and closely im- 

 bricated in four rows. The principal branches are rather long, 

 and obliquely extended, with the lesser ones and intermediate 

 branchlets short, numerous, thickly placed, and covered with 

 open, stiff, spiny, awl-shaped leaves, mostly in threes ; fertile 

 branchlets short, slender, much forked, and cylindrical, or 

 somewhat quadriform by the small, closely imbricated leaves. 

 Berries solitary, terminal, ovate, or oblong, smooth, nearly 

 black, half an inch in diameter, and containing one large ovate 

 seed. 



A low-spreading, dense shrub, three or four feet high, and 

 somewhat resembling the common Savin, but destitute of the 

 strong odour of that kind. 



It is found in Siberia, on the Songarian and Baical Alps, and 

 on the Altai and Daurian Mountains. 



No. 20. Juniperus pkostrata, Persoon, the Prostrate-branched 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus repens, Nuttall. 



Hudsonica, Loddiges. 



Sabina prostrata, Loudon. 



humilis, Hooker. 



horizontals, MceneJc. 



Alpina, Loddiges. 



fcetida multicaulis, Spach. 



Leaves in twos, alternately opposite, very short, looselyl 

 placed over each other, and irregularly four-rowed, very densei 

 concave above, convex below, and terminating in a very! 

 sharp point, stem-clasping, dull shining green, and with thei 

 ends pointing outwards and quite free. Stems prostrate, long! 

 slender, laying flat on the ground, flexible, and spreading 

 smaller ones short, dense, alternate, straight, and thickly placed: 

 on the upper side of the branches. Berries small, globular, 01 

 oblong, tuberculated, and when ripe of a glaucous black oi 

 blackish violet colour, on short branchlets, and solitary. 



