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The Fructification of Juniperus. 373 
Inthe region about Boston this species generally blossoms 
} ‘omabout the middle to near the end of May, or just about 
7 @month later than Juniperus Virginiana. The flowers appear 
lathe axils of the leaves from well developed buds on the 
@ ‘Wigs of the previous season’s growth. 
_ The male flower, or catkin as it is sometimes called, is com- 
@*«‘Pised of five or six whorls of scales, three in each whorl,each 
7 Sale usually bearing three or four anthers filled with globular 
Slightly roughened pollen grains about one-fortieth of a mil- 
ter in diameter. 
The female flowers consist of three fleshy, tubular, pistil- 
F kke terminal organs, 
os ‘lon the tips of the tubular fructiferous scales 
‘ung the ha winently exserted and except by a repo 
| Aire sum “, NO apparent growth takes place penne “4 
esi n Mer, so that by autumn or winter the little galbu 
Ging yt Much More than a millimeter long. In this con- 
at n- 
~ Reta like buds and probably have usually been mis 
Ng war 
2 ite des Plan 
ston, an appreciable increase in size is ap- 
: “SPPreciable increase 40 A 
tes, x11 (1892). 8. 
Climate hed S early in the following month of May, in 
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