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red cedars on the south side of the Island. In the Flora of 

 Richmond County, N. Y. [Staten Island], 1879, by Hollick and 

 Britton, is the statement that one tree of the erect variety grows 

 in the "Cedars" near New Dorp, and in August, 1903, Mr. 



Fig. 1. Juniper bushes (Jutti perns communis L.) near Selden, L. I., New York, 

 August 30, 1916. 



Sharrot, whose house at that time was in the clump of cedars 

 known as " Poppy Joe's Island," informed me that in his memory 

 there were a number of others growing among the red cedars, 

 but that the>' died out before the large one near his home. 

 In my herbarium there are two specimens from this last-men- 

 tioned tree, one collected in 1880 and one in 1891. When the 

 last specimen was collected the juniper was in a dying condition. 



Staten Island, 

 New York 



