58 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



Juniperus communis L., var. megistocarpa Fernald & St. 

 John, n. var., J. communem, var. montanam ramis prostratis foliis 

 latis brevibus incurvantibus similans sed differt fructubus major- 

 ibus, 9-13 mm. diametro; seminibus majoribus, 5-7 mm. longis. 



Resembling J. communis L., var. montana Ait. in its prostrate 

 branches and short broad incurved leaves, but differing from it by 

 its larger fruit, 9-13 mm. in diameter, and by its larger seeds, 5-7 mm. 

 long. 



NEWFOUNDLAND: serpentine and magnesian limestone barrens, 

 northeastern base and slopes of Blomidon ("Blow-me-down") 

 Mountains, Bay of Islands, August 21, 1910, M. L. Fernald and K. 

 M. Wiegand, no. 2,422 (H). 



QUEBEC, MAGDALEN ISLANDS: sand ridges back of the Narrows, 

 Alright Island, August 21, 1912, M. L. Fernald, Bayard Long, and 

 Harold St. John, no. 6,729 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); sand hills between 

 East Cape and East Point, Coffin Island, M. L. Fernald, Bayard 

 Long, and Harold St. John, no. 6,728 (H) ; sand dunes, Brion Island, 

 Aug. 6, 1914, Harold St. John, no. 2,040 (H). 



NOVA SCOTIA: Empetrum heaths near Gourdeau park, Sable 

 Island, Aug. 23, 1913, Harold St. John, no. 1,114 (H); sprawling on 

 sand dunes, Empetrum heaths, Whalepost, Sable Island, Aug. 30, 

 1913, Harold St. John, no. 1,115 (H). 



Common on Sable Island on the dry slopes of the fixed dunes. 

 This variety is probably the only one on the Island. In 1753 Andrew 

 Le Mercier (L) described the Island as looking "all green in winter 

 with the Juniper bushes." 



In 1766 and 1767, J. F. W. Des Banes observed "juniper &c., in 

 their season" (Atlantic Neptune, i. 68, 1777). 



"A little ground juniper," is referred to by J. B. Gilpin (G. p. 18); 

 "On y trouve, en fait de fruits, les baies du ge*nevrier rampant" 

 (T. p. 29). 



Fr. August and September. 



[J. COMMUNIS L., var. DEPRESSA Pursh. Collected by J. Macoun 

 and H. T. Giissow, and probably to be referred to the preceding 

 variety.] 



[J. NANA Willd. The plant mentioned by Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 

 (D. pp. 9 and 12) is probably J. communis, var. megistocarpa.] 



J. horizontalis Moench. Dry sheltered slopes of the more perma- 

 nent dunes. J. Macoun writes (M. p. 217A), "On one occasion I saw 

 roots protruding from under a sand-hill over thirty feet high, and 

 on digging them out found that they represented part of the remains 



