ARBORETUM AND 1 R LTICLTl M. 



FA KT 



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much less common than so fine a shrub deserves to be. The plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, after being 10 years planted, is 10ft. high. 

 In the Botanic (iarden at Toulon, 48 \ears planted, it is 19ft. high, and the 

 diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6d. 

 each ; and at Bollw\ller, 3 francs. 



10. ./. (P.) I.Y'CIA L. Tlie Lvcian Juniper. 



;,. I'l., iv. p. S.V>. ; Pall. Ross., ii. ].. 14. t. .ni. ; Ait. Hort. 



i.. \~\. p. 17. ; Tidrus plxrnirea iiltcra Plinij ct Tlioophrasti 

 \c , C. //,/;///. /'/;/., ]). 4S7. 

 Ham., G. t. 17.; and our .//^. 'J 'tiT., aiidy/. C.^HR. from Pallas. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. 



Kew., v. p. 41">. ; I.<1< 

 Syni>ni/,ncs. ./. p. .1 lv 



I.o>, Ir., ii. P L'-Jl ; ('. 

 Engraving.*. Pali. ]; ( s > 



A'/;rr. (7u//\, ST. Leaves in threes, imbricate on all sides, ovate, obtuse. 

 ( ll'illil.) Miller describes the Lvcian cedar as having its branches "growing 

 (red, and covered with a reddish brown bark. 

 Lcave> small, obtuse. Male flowers at the ends of 

 the branches, in a conical ament ; and the fruit single 

 from the axils below them, on the same branch. 

 Berries lartie, oval, and, when r;pe, brown." Ac- 

 cordint: to Pallas, ./. lycia is an entirely prostrate 

 shrub, with the trunk branching from the verv C 

 bot:om, and often thicker than the human arm. 

 1 hi 1 , and the branches, are often various! v deformed, x 

 with M'arcelvanv outer Itark. Tiie wood smells very 

 stront:, like that of the liennudas cedar. Branches 

 and braiu hlets \\and-like, and covered \sith a testa- 

 ceous bark. Shoots dark grc-cn, didiotomous, and 

 imbricate with scale-formed sharp leaves. Berries 

 terminal, globular, middle-si/ed, nearly black \\hen 

 ripe, and covered \\ith a glaucous bloom; con- 

 tainint: .'{ or -1 stones. Pailas adds that it greatly resembles the dwarf 

 .in, and that it differs principally in the greater 



