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side, covered with a smooth, brown, or reddish 

 bark, with a tinge of purple : the leaves narrow, 

 awl-shaped, ending in acute points, placed by 

 threes round the branches, pointing outwards, 

 bright grten on one side, and gray on the other, 

 continuing through the year : the male flowers 

 are sometimes on the same plant with the fe- 

 males, but at a distance from them; but they 

 are commonly on distinct plants : the female 

 flowers are succeeded by roundish berries, which 

 are first green, but when ripe of a dark purple 

 colour, continuing on the bush two years. It 

 is conuiion in all the northern parts of Europe. 

 The second species has the branchlets three- 

 sided : the leaves sessile (by no means adnate), 

 altogether as in the first sort, but larger in all 

 the parts : berries rufescent, the size of a hazel- 

 nut : the height ten or twelve feet, branched the 

 whole length : branches small and taper, having 

 no angles, as most of the other Junipers have : 

 the male flowers at the ends of the branches in 

 conical scaly aments: the berries below from the 

 side of the same branch : it is feathered from 

 top to botton), if left untouched from the first 

 planting, or if not crowded with other trees: 

 the short sharp-pointed leaves give the shrub a 

 fine look ; and the large brownish red berries 

 have a handsome appearance when ripe. It is a 

 native of Spain. 



The third grows to the height of twenty-five 

 or thirty feet, and sends out many branches, 

 which form a sort of pyramid : the leaves are 

 acute, lying over each other in four rows, so as 

 to make the branches four-corned : the berries 

 very large, and black when ripe. It is a native of 

 Spain. 



The fourth species lias been confounded with 

 the Bernuidas Cedar; but the branches spread 

 very wide, the leaves are extremely small, and 

 are every where imbricate : the bark is rugoed, 

 splits otF in strings, and is of a very dark co- 

 lour : the berries are smaller than those of the 

 Bermudas Cedar, and are of a light brown co- 

 lour when ripe. It is a native of the West In- 

 dies, where it rises to be one of the largest timber 

 trees. 



The fifth, or Bermudas Cedar, whilst young, 

 has acute-pointed leaves, which spread open, 

 and are ])laced by threes round the branches; 

 but as the trees advance their leaves alter, and 

 the branches become four-cornered : the leaves 

 are very short, and lie over each other by fours 

 round the branches : the berries are produced 

 towards the ends of the branches, and are of a 

 dark red colour, inclining to purple : the wood 

 has a very strong odour. It is a native of Ame- 

 rica. 



Tlie sixth is divided into two species by Mil- 



ler; the Common, or Cypress-leaved, and the 

 Tamarisk-leaved, or Berry-bearing Savin. In 

 the first the branches grow more erect, the leaves 

 are shorter, and end in acute points, which 

 spread outwards : it rises to the height of seven 

 or eight feet, and produces great quantities of 

 berries. The second sends out its branches ho- 

 rizontally, and seldom rises more than three or 

 four feet high, but spreads to a considerable di- 

 stance every way : the leaves are very short, acute- 

 pointed, running over each other along the 

 branches, with the ends pointing upwards: the 

 berries are smaller than those of the first, but 

 of the same colour, and a little compressed : 

 the whole plant has a very rank odour whea 

 handled. It is a native of the South of Europe. 

 There is a variety with variegated leaves. 

 The seventh has the leaves mutually opposite 

 by threes, fastened at the base by their inner 

 side, in the new shoots imbricate in four rows, 

 giving them the appearance of being quadran- 

 gular; the year following these spread from the 

 branch at an acute angle, and appear to be dis- 

 posed in six rows or longitudinal phalanges : the 

 berry dark blue, covered with a white resinou* 

 meal. It is a native of North America, &c. 



There are varieties, as the Swedish, or Tree 

 Juniper, which rises to the height of ten or 

 twelve (even sixteen or eighteen) feet : the 

 branches grow more erect than those of the 

 common Juniper; the leaves are narrower, end 

 in more acute points, and are placed further 

 asunder on the branches : the berries also are 

 longer. 



The Alpine, or Mountain Juniper, which has 

 the leaves broader and thicker: the berries rather 

 oval than spherical. 



The eighth species grows with its branches in 

 a pvramid : the lower ones have short, acute- 

 pointed, grayish leaves, pointing outwards; 

 but those on the upper branches are dark-green 

 and imbricate, ending, liowever, in acute 

 points : the male flowers are produced at the ex- 

 tremity of the branches, in a loose, scaly, coni- 

 cal ament, standing erect on a short peduncle: 

 the fruit is sometimes upon the same tree, at a 

 distance from the male flowers, but more gene- 

 rally on separate trees : the berries pale yellow 

 when ripe, about the size of those of the first 

 sort. It is a native of the South of Europe. 



The ninth has the branches growing erect, 

 and covered with a reddish-brown bark : the 

 leaves small, obtuse: the male flowers at the 

 ends of the branches in a conical ament; and 

 the fruit single from the axils behnv them, on 

 the same branch: the berries large, oval, and 

 when ripe brown. It is a native "of the South 

 of France. 



