THE JUNIPER. 



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and heathy downs, especially where the soil is chalky. 

 It usually appears as a bushy, evergreen shrub, with 

 narrow sharp-pointed leaves, which aie arranged in threes, 

 and are of a glaucous hue above, and dark green beneath. 

 Instead of bearing dry cones, like most other trees 

 belonging to this tribe, the Juniper produces fleshy berries, 

 which are formed of the united scales of the calyx, and 

 contain three oblong seeds. The barren flowers are small, 



and grow on separate plants from the fertile flowers, in 

 the axils of the leaves ; the Juniper was consequently 

 placed by Linnaeus in a different class from the rest of the 

 Fir tribe, though naturally closely allied to them. 



The Juniper of the ancients was probably a different 



