22 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS OXYCEDRUS (Linnceus). 



Sp. PL 1088 (1758). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 179 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. VI. p. 1409 (1912). 



A shrub or small tree occasionally attaining a height of 30 feet and 

 a girth of 10 to 12 feet. Branchlets angled. Leaves acicular, in 

 alternate whorls of three, spreading, linear, I to 4 inch l n g tapering 

 to an acuminate point, swollen and jointed at the base, entire in 

 margin ; upper surface with a narrow green midrib, on each side 

 of which is a white stomatic furrow, bounded externally by a 

 green band ; lower surface green, convex, keeled. 



Flowers dioecious. Staminate flowers solitary in the axil of a 

 leaf, two or three in each whorl, sessile, ovoid, about \ inch long. 

 Fruit ripening in the second year, solitary in the axils, on short 

 stalks about r ' (; inch long, globose, | to I inch in diameter, shining 

 reddish brown when ripe, occasionally glaucous, composed of three 

 to six scales each indicated by a minute mucro, the apex of the 

 fruit having three radiating lines. Seeds normally three, reddish 

 brown, oblong, triquetrous, with two resin glands at the base and two 

 sharp lateral ridges. 



Jvniperns Oxycedrvs is very variable in the wild state ; and 

 several varieties have been described. It is widely distributed 

 throughout the Mediterranean region extending eastwards through 

 Syria, Western Asia Minor, the South Coast of the Crimea, and the 

 Caucasus to Armenia and Northern Persia. 



In England it was in cultivation as early as 1739, but is now 

 rarely seen. 



The illustration represents a specimen sent by Prof. Flahault 

 from Montpellier. 



