166 JUNIPERUS, OR 



foliage, and bright green. Berries exactly round, tolerably- 

 large, twice the size of those of the Common Chinese Juniper 

 (Juniperus Chinensis), smooth, and of a violet glaucous colour. 



This species, according to Fortune, grows to the height of 

 30 or 40 feet in the northern parts of China, forming a stately- 

 tree. It has long been cultivated in England under the name 

 of Juniperus Smithii. 



Juniperus sphserica glauca, Fortune, is a very different kind 

 from the above, and of which little is known. 



No. 36. Juniperus tetragona, Schlecht, the Tetragonal 



Juniper. 



Leaves on the adult plants, in pairs, opposite, fleshy, obtuse, 

 egg-shaped, thickest at the points, and very closely imbricated, 

 from half to three-fourths of a line long, and regularly and 

 closely in four rows, but rather distant when old, and withered 

 on the branches ; and of a dull green colour, slightly glaucous 

 when young. Branches spreading, nearly fiat, with the ends 

 turned upwards ; smaller ones short, and thickly covered with 

 truly four-sided branchlets. Branchlets straight, regularly four- 

 sided, very numerous, stiff, spread out, and the fruit-bearing 

 ones slightly curved, and very dense at the ends of the 

 branches. Berries solitary, about the size of a small pea, 

 globular, with a few scars, and thin scales on the surface, of 

 a dark purple colour, with a slight glaucous bloom on the sur- 

 face, and three or four lines in diameter. 



A beautiful low-spreading shrub, growing from four to five 

 feet high, plentiful on the mountains of Mexico, particularly 

 on the mountains from Real del Monte to Chico, at an eleva- 

 tion of from 10,000 to 11,000 feet. It does not produce San- 

 derac, but is quite hardy. , 



