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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Synonymes. Sabine, Fr. ; stinkender Wachholder, Ger. ; Planta daunata and Cipresso des Maghi, 

 Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 56. f. 2. ; and our fig. 2026. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves oval, opposite, imbricated, somewhat acute, convex 

 on the back ; the male catkins pedunculate. Berries of a blackish blue, 

 generally monospermous. (N. Du Ham.) A low evergreen shrub. South 

 of Europe and Tauria. Height 7ft. to 8ft. Introduced before 1548; 

 flowering in March and April, and ripening its blackish blue fruit in the 

 spring of the following year. 



Varieties. 



* J. S. 1 cupressifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. v. p. 414. J. lusitanica Mill. 



Diet. No. 11.; Sabina Dod. Pempt. 854. ; la Sabine male, Fr. 

 (fig. 2021.) Leaves like those of a cypress. 



* J. S. 2 tamariscifolia Ait. 1. c. J. Sabina Mill. Diet. No. 10. la 



Sabine femelle (Jig. 2022.) 

 * J. S. 3foliis variegdtis Mart. Mill. 

 Leaves variegated. 



2021. 



J S. cupressifblia. 



8022. J. S, temariscifoha. 



2023. J. S. prostrata. 



2024. J. S. alpUia. 



t J. S. 4 prostrdta. J. prostrata Michx. ; J. repens Nutt. ; J. hudsonica 

 Lodd.Cat. 1836. (fig. 2023.) A low trailing plant, seldom rising 

 above 6 or 8 inches in height, but rooting into the soil, and extend- 

 ing its branches to a great distance. 



^ J. S. 5 alpina. J. alf)ina Lodd. Cat. 1836. (fig. 2024.) Procumbent, 

 and more slender in its habit ; but, in other respects, only slightly 

 different from J. prostrata. 



The savin, though generally seen, in British gardens, as a low spreading 

 shrub, has sometimes an upright trunk, clothed in a reddish brown bark, and 

 rising to the height of 10 or 12 feet, or even higher. Its branches are nearly 

 straight, very much ramified, and form, with the trunk, a 

 regular pyramid. Its young branches are entirely covered 

 with imbricated leaves, which have a very strong and dis- 

 agreeable odour, and a very bitter taste. The male flowers 

 are disposed in small catkins, on peduncles covered with 

 little imbricated leaves, and are dispersed laterally along 

 the youngest branches. The female flowers are generally 

 produced on separate trees, and are disposed in the same 

 manner : they are succeeded by oval berries, of a blue so 

 deep as to be almost black, and are about the size of a 

 currant : they generally contain only one seed, which is 

 long, oval, and somewhat compressed. A very common ornamental ever- 

 green, thriving in the poorest soils, and in exposed situations ; in the latter 

 remaining an humble prostrate shrub, and in the former attaining a consider- 

 able size. 



2025. J. Sabina. 



