JUNIPER 



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which have three-pronged scales projecting from between 

 the ordinary scales. 



(b) Leaves crowded and scale-like or subulate, 

 opposite or m whorls of three. Buds very 

 small, green. Cones of very few scales. 



(i) Most or all of the leaves subulate, pungent, 

 spreading in whorls of three. Buds with 

 sharp-pointed leaf-scales in whorls of three. 

 Cones of few fleshy scales fused into a blue- 

 black " berry." 



Juniperus communis, L. Juniper (Figs. 64 and 38). 

 Twigs green. Branches with 

 smooth reddish brown sur- 

 face, passing to grey -brown, 

 scaly bark. 



The bud is practically 

 a tuft of young lanceolate- 

 acuminate or almost subu- 

 late leaves, of which the 

 two outermost stand right 

 and left of the subtending 

 leaf. These are followed by 

 about three whorls of three 

 leaves each, each whorl alter- 

 nating, the first therefore 

 with its odd leaf next the 

 axis. Thus the bud is naked, its scales being true 

 leaves. 



(ii) Leaves all small, short and scale-like, 

 closely crowded and appressed, in imbri- 

 cating opposite and decussate pairs. Cones 

 woody. 



Fig. 64. Bud of Juniper sub- 

 tended by the scar of the leaf in 

 whose axil it stands. It consists of 

 alternating whorls of three leaves 

 each. 



