Illustrations of Conifers. 29 



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JUNIPERUS SQUAMATA (Buchanan- Hamilton). 



Lambert, Genus Pinus II, 17 (1824). 



Trees nf Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1420 (1912). 



A shrub with decumbent stems from which arise numerous short erect 

 branches. Young branchlets green with three grooves. Leaves all 

 acicular, densely imbricated in whorls of three, appressed or slightly 

 spreading, decurrent on the branchlets, the free part ,1 inch long, 

 curved, tapering to the sharply pointed apex ; upper surface concave, 

 whitened, usually with a faint midrib ; lower surface convex, green, 

 furrowed. Older branchlets stout, reddish-brown, covered with per- 

 sistent reddish -brown acicular leaves. 



Fruit ellipsoid, becoming black when ripe in the second year, 

 J to ) inch long and somewhat less in diameter, composed of three 

 to six mucronate scales. Seed solitary, ovoid, ridged, with three 

 or four depressions below the middle for resin glands. 



JiiiiipeniH sr/naniata is allied to ./. recurva, differing from it in 

 its habit and in having stouter and broader needles ; the fruit is also 

 smaller and of a different shape. It occurs throughout Afghanistan, 

 the Himalayas, the mountains of China and Formosa, and in Sikkim 

 is said to grow at an altitude of 15,000 feet. It was introduced 

 into England about 1836 and is sometimes cultivated in rockeries 

 under the name of J. pseudosabina. 



The specimen illustrated was grown at Bayfordbury. 



