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JUNIPER 
: FUNTIPERUS. 
mee male flowers are placed in long catkins by threes; and 
bafe: befides this there are only filaments. 
three parts, and three hard-pointed petals. 
they have each a feale at the 
The female flower has a cup divided into 
The fruit is a round berry, containing three feeds. 
Linnzus places this among the diacia monadelphia. 
Common Juniper. 
Juniperus 4 
Itis commonly a fhrub of fix feet high, but 
will rife to a tree in fome places. 
The branches are numerous. 
The leaves are fet very thick, and they are 
fmall, narrow, of a pale green, and tharp at the 
point. 
The male flowers grow on fome trees, and the 
fruit on others: this is a round, purplith berry, 
covered with a grey powder. 
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We have it common on heaths. 
C. Bauhine calls it Funiperus vulgaris fruticofa. 
The berries are an excellent carminative and 
diuretick 5 as is alfo the wood. 
We have two other fpecies, 
x. Dwarf Mountain Juniper, Juniperus Alpina. 
The leaves of this are broader than in the 
other. 
2. Savine, Salina. This is properly a fpecies of 
the jusiper with broader leaves: famous for 
promoting the menfes. : 
XI. 
BLACK EMPET.RU™M, 
EMPETRUM.. 
HERE are three kinds of flowers, male, female, and hermaphrodite, all on diftin® plants. 
The male flower has a cup divided into three parts, and three {mall, oval petals; this is 
fucceeded by a berry. The male flowers are formed as the hermaphrodite, but have no rudiment 
of a fruit, nor are fucceeded by any berry. The female have all the parts of the hermaphrodite 
flowers, but no filaments, 
Linnzus places this among the ¢riacia. 
and the hermaphrodite impregnate themfelves. 
Black berry’d Empetrum. 
Empetrum frudiu nigro. 
The fhrub fg low and fmall ; the branches trail 
upon the ground, and the bark is red and gloffy. 
The leaves ftand thick and irregularly, and 
are oval, fhort, and pointed. 
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The farina from the male flower impregnates the female; 
The berries are black and fhining. 
We have it on boggy heaths. 
C. Bauhine calls it Erica Laccifera procumbens 
nigra. Others, Empetrum nigrum, Our people, 
Crowberries, and Crakeberries. 
XII. 
BOX, 
BUS X aU gas: 
ELE male flowers rife from the buds of the branches, and are formed of two roundifh, hollowed 
leaves, placed in a three-leaved cup. 
The female flowers grow among them, and have a 
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four-leaved cup and three petals. he feed-veffel is round, and has three beaks. 
Linnzus places this among the monecia tetrandria. 
1. Common Box, 
Buxus vulgaris. 
It is naturally a bufhy, low fhrub. 
The bark is pale ; the wood yellow ; the leaves 
hard, roundifh, and firm. 
The flowers are of a greenifh white. 
It is wild in Kent and elfewhere. 
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C. Bauhine calls it Buxus arborefcens. 
The wood has the virtues of guiacum, as a: 
fudorifick and fweetener of the blood. 
We have another fpecies. 
2. Narrow-leaved Box, Buxus anguftifolia. The 
leaves fharper at the point, and the branches 
fewer. 
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