34. Family CONIFERS. (Pine Fam.) 



Genus Juniperus, L. (Juniper.) 



Fig. 115. Common Juniper. /. communis, L. 



Flowers, the staminate and pistillate forms usually on 

 separate plants, in small clusters or cones at the 

 sides of the branches. Corolla and calyx, lacking. 



Leaves, evergreen, five twelfths to three quarters of an 

 inch long, line-like, stiff, sharp, grooved and whitened 

 above, green and ridged below ; in clusters (whorls) 

 of threes. 



Fruit, bluish-black, one quarter of an inch or more in 

 diameter, with one to three bony, wingless, egg- 

 shaped seeds, ripening the second year from 

 flowering ; berry-like. 



Found, common on dry land from New Jersey to Canada 

 and Wisconsin. 



An evergreen shrub, usually low and flat in large 

 beds, with many spreading or drooping and rooting 

 branches, yet sometimes rising six to eight feet in pyra- 

 midal form. The sweetish, turpentine-flavored berries 

 are medicinal diuretic and stimulating. 



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