JUNIPERUS 



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wholly green, keeled. Fruit globose, | in. across, reddish brown, containing 



three 'seeds. It much resembles J. rigida in habit and leaf, but that species 



is well distinguished by the groove that 



traverses the centre of the upper surface 



of the leaf, which has, moreover, no green 



line dividing the glaucous band into two 



parts. 



J. PACHYPHL/EA, Torrey. 

 CHEQUER-BARKED JUNIPER. 



A tree 50 to 60 ft. high, with a very 

 distinct bark that cracks up into curious 

 small squares. Leaves of two kinds, awl- 

 shaped and scale-like, with intermediate 

 states ; the former to ^ in. long, very 

 sharply pointed, mostly in threes, whitish 

 on the upper side, glaucous beneath ; the 

 scale-like ones in pairs or in threes, closely 

 flattened to the branchlet, -$ in. long, ovate, 

 pointed, with the points incurved. Under 

 a strongish glass minute teeth can be seen 

 on the margin, and there is a resin-gland 

 on the back. Fruits ripening the second 

 year, globose or slightly longer than broad, 

 \ in. long, covered with blue bloom. 



Native of dry mountain-sides in the 

 south-western United States. It has been 

 cultivated at Kew since about 1873, but 

 is still scarcely 20 ft. high. Our climate is 

 scarcely sunny and hot enough for it. The 

 specimen at Kew, however, shows the curi- 

 ous chequered bark which is the most 

 distinctive feature of this juniper. A fine 

 specimen in the Jesup collection of timbers 

 at the Natural History Museum of New 

 York shows this character remarkably well. 

 J. pachyphlaea is very pretty in the silvery 

 young growth of the juvenile form, and is 

 now offered for sale by nurserymen. 



J. PHCENICEA, Linnaus. 



Although trees and shrubs bearing this 

 name are occasionally to be met with in 

 gardens, it would seem that the true plant 

 is now rare, and only to be found in the 

 warmer parts of the country. It is a 

 native of S. Europe, N. Africa, and the 

 Canary Islands, and, according to Aiton, 

 was introduced in 1683. The adult leaves 

 are in pairs or in threes, scale-like, ^ in. 

 long, very closely arranged and appressed 

 to the branchlet ; the juvenile leaves (few JCSIPEBUS 



or absent in old trees) are needle-like and 



in whorls of threes. Fruit variable, but mostly globose, about \ in. diameter, 

 dark reddish or yellowish brown, without bloom, containing three to nine seeds. 



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