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pearance opposite each other, according to the situation of the scales. Other 

 specimens have not this appearance. Is it therefore only accidental in some 

 specimens, and does it not also take place with us in .7. communis ? 



Juniperits tetragbna. New species. — A shrub with low-growing, almost flat, 

 branches ; the leaves are in four rows, and lie close over each other, rather 

 thick, obtuse egg-shaped ; the fruit globular and small. It was found by 

 C. Ehrenberg at Mineral del Monte, at a height of from 10,000 ft. to 1 1,000 ft. 

 This species might be taken for Cupressus sabinoides H. B. § Kth., although 

 Kunth describes the plant as a tree. Humboldt found it in sunny rocky 

 situations, at Cofre del Perote, near El Pinahuitepec, at a height of 1,500 

 toises. The youngest twigs are almost four-sided, rather stiff, straight, or 

 slightly bent; the leaves are thick and short, and about from half to three 

 fourths of a line long ; they lie close over each other, are quite obtuse, and 

 convex on the back, with the obtuse end pressed down. It is only the leaves 

 of older twigs that are more pointed. This species does not produce resin. 

 The globular berries are from 3 to 4 lines in diameter, but are not yet 

 ripe. In Kunth's short description, the leaves are only from one fourth to 

 one third of a line long, as they generally appear on the end shoots of our 

 twigs. 



TAXA'cEiE, Arb. Brit. p. 2065., Hort. Lig. p. 117. 



Taxus globosa. New species. — This species exceedingly resembles one of 

 our European yews, but the fruit certainly is different. At first, I also thought 

 there was a difference in the leaves, as they have small thin points, and the 

 yews in our gardens have not ; but when I compared this species with the 

 alpine specimens, I found they had also similar points. The fruit, when 

 young, has quite a different appearance from the European yew ; it is more of 

 a globular or depressed form, and the cup in which it lies has almost a cy- 

 lindrical bell shape, while that of the European species has more of the barrel 

 form ; the scales, also, under the cup have quite a different appearance and con- 

 sistency. The leaves are generally, perhaps, somewhat smaller, viz. from 9 

 to 10 lines long, and only three fourths of a line broad, and apparently some- 

 what more crooked. Charles Ehrenberg found this tree 20 ft. high, at Real 

 del Monte, between El Canino del Paso and Huajalote. It bears fruit in 

 September. (Linncea, vol. xii. p. 496.) 



Art. X. Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural Notices of 

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