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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



D. Fruit globular, glaucous brownish-violet with 2-3 seeds ; the scale 

 leaves without notches and blunt at tip. CHINESE JUNIPER (009) 

 - Juniperus chineiisis. 



D. Fruit small, glaucous, brownish, 1-2-seeded on short straight 

 stems ripening the first year ; leaves very small and sharp-pointed. 

 VIRGINIAN JUMPER or RED CEDAU Juniperus virginiana. 



D. Fruit larger, light blue, pendulous, borne on curved stems, 1-4- 

 seeded, ripening the second year; low spreading shrubs with 

 strong disagreeable odor when bruised. SAVIN or SHRUBBY RED 

 CEDAK or JUNIPER (610) or WAUKKGAN JITNIPER ((311) or 

 TAMARISK-LEAVED JUNIPER (G12) Juniperus Sabina. 



Of the above species, coni- 

 munis, chine'nsis, virginiana, and 

 Sabina have most of the dwarf 

 varieties. With the fruit there 

 will be but little difficulty in cor- 

 rectly naming them, but without 

 the fruit there will be much 

 trouble. Sabina can be readily 

 separated by its odor from virgin- 

 iana, which it most resembles. 

 Below are given most of the va- 

 rieties that are shrubby. 



CURVED-BRANCHED JUNIPER 

 (COS) Juniperus reciirva is a 

 shrub or tree to 30 feet. It has dwarf varieties of which the lowest one, 

 PROSTRATE JUNIPER (613) 

 squamata, has prostrate or trail- 

 inii branches, leaves straight and 

 slightly spreading, of a glaucous 

 bluish green color; DENSE- 

 p. i: A N< 11 E 1 1 J u x i PER densa has 

 short crowded branchlets and 

 curved grayish <_:reen leaves. 



( 'u \I\K.\ Jrxipri: i fi07) Juni- 

 perus communis in its tree form 

 ran-es from L><) ti 30 feet but is 

 often a shrub of 4 to 5 feet; 

 K'> u x HE n Ji SIPKR hemi. 

 sphserica is. as its name indi- 

 cates. a rounded shrub with many FIG. 014. Spreading Juniper. 



FIG. (JK 1 .. Prostrate Juniper. 





