THE 
JOURNAL. OF BOTANY 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
pS sae 
THE BERMUDA JUNIPER AND ITS ALLIES. 
By Maxwett T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. 
Correspondent of the Institute of France. 
Unti comparatively recently some doubts have existed con- 
cerning the species of Juniperus found in the island of Jamaica and 
in the Bermudas respectively; and there has — a corresponding 
dopted. The 
herbaria, until quite lately, of any modern specimens of the tree 
native to Jamaica 
preiree source of confusion has arisen from the polymorphism 
onstantly presented by certain species of juniper, etc.: thus 
hare are the linear primordial leaves, which are free at the base, 
and spreading; and there are the adult leaves, closely appressed, 
ovate, acute, convex, and often glandular at the back. Between 
these two forms are others, intermediate in form, according to the 
age of the shoot and its rate of growth. A particular tree, or more 
frequently a particular branch, may, as is well known, produce only 
primordial, spreading — or only imbricate scale- Mike leaves ; 
or, again, both forms may coexist on the same branch with or 
without intermediate forms. 
story and postin of the two trees. 
In th A er 2 is obvious from the comparison of the 
specimens peer the islands. that the Bermuda tree, generally 
called Juniperus bration, is quite distinct, alike from the species’ 
growing on the intains of Jamaica and from that (now uni- 
versally known as a. vin oan which oceurs from New Brunswick 
to Florida on the eastern side of the United States, whilst the same 
or re gee forms occur in the Rocky Mossteina of Colorado, os a 
: in 5 Colombia, and southward in Texas 
» over so vast an area, exposed to wid ere 
Jouamat oF Borany.—Vou. 87. [Jdan. pens — 
