Illustrations of Conifers. 25 



JUNIPERUS PROCUMBENS (Siebold). 



Ann. Soc. Hort. Pays-Bas, 1844, p. 81. 



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



A prostrate shrub resembling J. sqnamata in habit, but differing in 

 the branchlets being glaucous white on the edges of the pulvini. 

 Leaves longer than in that species ; their free part J inch long, taper- 

 ing to an acuminate spine-like apex ; upper surface concave and 

 covered except along the margins with a white stomatic band, 

 divided except near the apex by a green midrib ; lower surface con- 

 vex, bluish, spotted with white, furrowed. Fruit not seen. 



According to Siebold this shriib occurred wild in the mountains 

 of Japan, where it was also cultivated in gardens and temple woods. 



Jvnipems prommbem is said to have been introduced into the 

 Botanic Gardens at St. Petersburg in 1864, but does not appear to 

 have been known in England until recently, when it has been 

 largely imported from Japan. It is occasionally mistaken for 

 ./. litoralis, a totally different plant, which also occurs in Japan. 



The illustration represents a specimen from the rock garden at 

 Bayfordbury. 



