12 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS RIGIDA (Siebold and Zucearini). 



Fl. Jap. II. 56, t. 125 (1844). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 188 (1900). 



Trues of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1408 (1912). 



A spreading bush or small tree, attaining in Japan 20 to 30 feet in 

 height. Bark thin and scaly. Young branches triquetrous with 

 three projecting ridges, becoming terete and scaly in the fourth 

 year. Leaves all acicular, persistent several years, spreading in 

 whorls of three, linear-subulate, \ to f inch long, about J- inch 

 broad, tapering from the middle to the very sharp apex, swollen and 

 jointed at the base ; upper surface deeply concave with the mar- 

 gins inflexed, the narrow median groove whitened with a stomatic 

 band scarcely so wide as the green margins ; lower surface green, 

 prominently keeled, without glands. Buds ovoid, minute, with sharp- 

 pointed scales, which persist brown and withered at the ends of the 

 branchlets of the second year. 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit ripening in the second year, globose, 

 about \ inch in diameter, with six bracts in two whorls at the 

 base, on a very short stalk, smooth, purplish brown, composed of 

 three glaucous scales, each with a minute mucro near the top. 

 Seeds two or three in each berry, angled, marked near the base 

 with three or four deep pits containing resin. 



Jmiiperiis rigida, which was introduced into England in 1861 

 by J. Gould Veitch, is generally distributed at low elevations in 

 Central Japan on dry gravel soil, and is much cultivated by the 

 Japanese in temple gardens ; it has also been found in Manchuria 

 and Korea. 



The illustration represents a branch from Highnam Court, 

 Gloucester. 



