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observations may serve to settle this point about the fructifica- pe. 
tion in regard to the only three species which occur east we, 
the Mississippi River. As a rule,they are dicecious,but mon- — 
cecious examples may sometimes be found. a 
As is well known, Funiperus Virginiana L. is one of the 3 
most widely distributed of our American trees, ranging inthe 
east from the northern boundaries of the United States, to — 
Florida, and westward to the Pacific coast. bisa 
In New England I find it is simply annual fruited, flowering 
about the latter part of April and maturing its fruit in the 
autumn of the same year. In examining specimens from other . 
parts of the country, especially from the south, this charat- : 
teristic of ripening in the same season seems to be constant 
: 
We find no green fruit on the plants in winter, and before — 
spring the trees are often stripped of their ripe blue fruit by 
birds. The persistence of the fruit during winter and even 
through the following spring may have given rise to the 4 
impression that it was biennial. The galbulus ts wee 
somewhat irregular, normally contains So and isco . 
osed of about three pairs of coalescing scales. oem 
: I have not been = to study living plants of Phew 0 
Sabina, var. procumbens Pursh.,the only other eastern i 4 
ican species of the section Sabina; but, through the pres 
of correspondents, I have had fresh specimens ate 
stages. This species proves to be very distinc ‘ 
fruited, the large galbuli and the seeds ripening int oe : 
of the second year. The galbulus, formed by the rite we 
tion of six fleshy scales, in three pair alternately halt i “a 
usually more or less irregular instead of being pertec Yeahs of 
and in the first season it attains three-fourths or four a 
its ultimate size. A os is 
The third and last of our eastern American gece be 
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Very naturally, it has been much studied and mon 
and yet an important peculiarity o 
have escaped notice. Instead of req “the 
does Juniperus Virginiana, or two years, ae it of Juniper’ 
Juniperus Sabina, var. procumbens, the a the third 
communis does not mature until the autumn © 
after blossoming. 
