OLASS XXII. ORDER VILL] JUNIPERUS. bes 4% 1293 
the small segments. Corolla three, broadly ovate petals, with a short 
claw, and waved or crimped on the margin. The barren flowers 
sub-umbellate, from the base of a pale thin membranous sheathing 
spatha, elevated on a round slender stem. Fertile flowers solitary, on 
a long stem, arising from the bottom of a sessile spatha. 
Habitat.—Ditches and pools in England and Ireland. ‘“ Searcely 
found in Scotland.” 
Perennial; flowering in July. 
The flowers of this pretty aquatic plant are very ornamental to our 
pools and ditches, and might be introduced into garden ponds, &c., 
amongst other aquatic plants. It leaves are so pellucid, that, with 
the aid of a magnifying glass, the circulation of the sap through its 
vessels can be distinctly seen. Flowers with six petals are occa- 
sionally found; and Ray mentions having found double flowered 
ones very sweet scented in the Isle of Ely, but it does not appear to 
have been noticed since his time. 
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ORDER VIII. 
MONADEL’PHIA. Stamens combined. 
GENUS XII. JUNI’PERUS.--Linn. Juniper. 
Nat. Ord. CoNnirE’RExX. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Barren flowers, scales of the catkins ovate, sub-peltate. 
Stamens four to eight, single celled. Fertile flowers, catkins 
globose, its scales few, at length united, becoming fleshy, and 
surrounding the berry. Stigma gaping. Berry composed of 
three bony single seeded nuts——Name jeneprus, in Celtic ; rude, 
rough, as is the plant. 
1. J. commu'nis, Linn. (Fig. 1555.) Common Juniper. Shrubby. 
Leaves three in a whorl, spreading, linear, subulate, with a pungent 
point, smooth and channeled above, obtusely keeled at the back, 
longer than the ovate black pruinous berry. 
English Botany, t. 1100.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 251.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 377.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 241, 
8. nana, Hook. Small, procumbent, with broader leaves. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 877.—J. nana, Willd.— 
English Botany Suppl. t. 2743.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 252.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 241. ; 
A shrub of very variab!e size, from a low prostrate plant to an erect 
bush several feet high, the younger branches quadrangular, furrowed. 
Leaves evergreen, linear, subulate, acuminated into a pungent point, 
