18 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS LITORALIS (Maximowicz). 



Bull. Acad. Petersb. XII. p. 230 (1868). 



Tree* of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1422 (1912). 



A prostrate shrub, with brownish bark. Branches thick, with densely 

 crowded erect branchlets. 



Leaves crowded on the branchlets, densely imbricated, about 

 inch long, acicular, glaucous green, curved, tapering to a very sharp 

 point ; deeply grooved above, with one band of stomata in the 

 groove ; convex below. 



Fruit covered with glaucous bloom, globose, J to ^ inch in 

 diameter. Seeds three, ovoid, triquetrous. 



Juniperus litoralis is allied to J. rigida, but differs from that 

 species in its crowded leaves and its larger and conspicuously glau- 

 cous fruit. It occurs wild in the maritime regions of Japan, 

 where it is generally distributed. It is unknown in cultivation in 

 England, and is quite distinct from the commonly cultivated Juni- 

 perus procumbens, which is often erroneously named J. Ktoralu. 



The photograph illustrates a type specimen collected by Maxi- 

 mowicz at Hakodate, Japan, in 1861, and preserved in the Her- 

 barium of the British Museum. 



