Illustrations of Conifers. 27 



JUNIPERUS SABINA (Linnceus), Var. prostrata (Loudon). 



Arb. et Frut. Brit. Vol. IV. 2499 (1838). 



Treet of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1444 (1912). 



A low prostrate shrub bearing only aeicular glaucous foliage in 

 cultivation. Leaves in their free part | inch long, spreading, the 

 glaucous bloom appearing on the dorsal surface near the base ; ventral 

 surface whitened ; branchlets of the second and third year bright 

 reddish brown. Fruit not seen on cultivated shrubs. This variety 

 is probably of American origin, and is said to have been first in- 

 troduced by Loddiges who called it J. hudsonica in his catalogue of 

 1836. It has the characteristic odour of the Savin ; and is not un- 

 common in cultivation being often seen in rock gardens. 



The specimen illustrated is from the Bayfordbury collection. 



