252 DIOECIA— MONADELPHIA. Taxus. 



turpentine flavour to be agreeable. They yield, by distillation, 

 that curse of the common people, called Gin, whose substitutes 

 or adulterations are more deadly than even itself. Various 

 mountain birds feed on the berries of this and the following 

 species, whence their flesh acquires a pitchy flavour. The 

 medical qualities of these berries agree with those of the Fir 

 tribe in general. Oil of Juni])er affects the kidneys powerfully, 

 and affords a temporary relief in nephritic colicks. 



2. i.nana. Dwarf Alpine Juniper. 



Leaves three in each whorl, tipped with a spine, somewhat 

 imbricated, curved, the length of the oval ripe fruit. 

 Stem recumbent. 



J. nana. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 854. 



J. communis /3. Fl. Br. 1086. Light/. C24. 



J. communis y. Linn. Sp. PI. 1470. 



J. n. 1661 d. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 320. 



J alpina. iiflii.S^w. 444. Bauh.Hist.v.].p.2.30\.f.302. Clus. 

 Hist. 38./. Pann. 26./. 25. 



J. alpina minor. Ger. Em. 1372./. 



J. minor montana, folio latiorCj fructuque longiore. Bauh, Pin. 489. 



On mountains. 



Upon Snowdon ; as well as on the mountains of Westmoreland. 

 Rmj. On the Highland mountains of Scotland, frequent. Light- 

 foot. 



Shrub. May. 



A dwari shrub, v\'ith prostrate stetns, and slightly ascending branches. 

 Leaves more or less curved, broader and shorter than the fore- 

 going. Berries larger and more oval, nearly as long as the 

 leaves. 



All the old botanists reckoned this a distinct species ; but Linnaeus 

 and Haller, with their followers, have made it a variety. AVillde- 

 now has restored it to its former rank, but his specific character 

 is rather feeble. Indeed the whole genus requires the same in- 

 vestigation that Mr. Lambert has bestowed u])on Piniis, in order 

 to determine how far this, and the beautiful trailing Sabine, a.s 

 well as the great Swedish Juniper, require to be considered as 

 distinct species, and on what their characters are to be founded. 



461. TAXUS. Yew. 



Linn. Gen. 532. Juss. 4\2. Fl. Br. 1086. Tourn. t.362. Lam. 

 t.829. GcertJi.t.91. 



Nat. Ord. See «. 460. 



