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to look after the black-faced sheep. (Cf. The English Year 

 Spring, p. 84, by W. Beach Thomas and A. K. Collett.) Nor 

 do we know what the Queen's botanist did during the Revolu- 

 tionary War, unless a certain Captain Young mentioned in the 

 diary as serving with the American forces stationed at Bristol 

 on May i, 1777, happened to be the subject of this sketch. 

 With these two exceptions, the biography of the Queen's botanist 

 has been made reasonably complete by the discovery of the 

 references to his life and work in the family journal in the posses- 

 sion of Harry K. Leech, of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. 



University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia 



JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS ON LONG ISLAND AND 

 STATEN ISLAND 



By Wm. T. Davis 



About Selden, Long Island, N. Y., there is much uncultivated 

 country, some of it woodland and some one time fields now over- 

 grown with native vegetation. On the 30 of August, 1916, I 

 was walking along a sandy road to the south of the village, when 

 I was surprised to see close to the road two considerable clumps 

 of Juniperus communis L. growing so near together that they 

 touched. One was about four feet high, while the other was 

 twice as tall or more. Their relative positions and heights may 

 be judged by the accompanying picture. I did not expect to 

 see this plant on Long Island, for in the Flora of the vicinity of 

 New York by Norman Taylor, 191 5, it is said to be "unknown 

 on L. Lands. L" * 



The boy that was with me at the time stated that there was 

 still another bush like the one we were examining, on a hill to 

 the southward, that is on one of the hills of the Ronkonkoma 

 moraine. This I did not have time to visit. 



While as 'far as is known there is no Juniperus communis 

 now growing on Staten Island, it used to occur in the clumps of 



* Since that book was published specimens of Juniperus communis have been 

 seen from Cedarhurst, Aquebogue and Amagansett on Long Island, in addition to 

 this new locality mentioned by Mr. Davis. — Ed. 



