THE BERMUDA JUNIPER AND ITS ALLIES. 8 
the world), and — bring forth a very sweet berry and wholsome 
to eat.’’ In 161 e islands were colonized from Virginia, the 
establishment of whieh latter colony dates only from 1607. Clearly 
the cedar existed in Bermuda ages before the island was settled 
from Virginia. 
The aoe mention in any erie — of the West Indian 
junipers, so as has been yet discovered, is in Parkinson’s 
Theatrum nee p- 1029, though it ae ae inferred, from what he 
says, ee the trees were already fairly nom known. — oni 
major ;Aanericana, West Indian Cedar or fasten This tree -seier 
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the Virginian tr ees were confounded one with the other. 
e next reference we meet with is in Paul Hermann’s Hort. 
Acad. Lugd. Bat. Catalogus i) p. 845. Here the tree is called 
Juniperus Bormudiana and we are told that it grew in England 
= seeds ‘ex Bormudos Insula delatis.”” A description and a 
are given in which one kind of foliage only, the primordial, 
scribed as being as large as hazel nuts. There can be no doubt that 
the size of the fruit is oxageene both in the description and in the 
illustration ; nevertheless it is — that the globose berries in 
e Bermudan plant are generally, if not — considerably larger 
than the ovoid ones of the Virginian ee 
Following the chro nological sequence, we come now to Ray’s 
rat bi via igen rum, vol. il. (1688), esirologia, p. 1413. Here we 
find the two species treated of as one under Parkinson’s name. 
‘¢ Juniperus major Americana Park. Cedrus Americana vulgo dicta. 
Juniperus virginiana et barbadensis. Nostratibus The cedar o 
Virginia, Bermudas, Barbados. .... A short description is 
given, in which the leaves are said to be very like those of the 
common juniper, but smaller, and the berries small. As to the 
ity, 
rsitate ortis.” Flere see R ing what is now 
a ‘broad view” of species, and in modern fashion ap- 
preciating the influence of the ‘“‘environment.’’ Nevertheless he 
quotes from Hermann the deastipon of both J. bermudiana and 
J. virginiana, 
In Plukenet’s Almagestum (1696), p. 201,* mention is made of 
o forms, one ‘‘ Juniperus Virginiana Cupressi foliis oe 
siti Sabinam redolens,” and the other ‘‘ Juniperr 
Cupressi folio, ramulis Berar nag Savin or Cypress tree natin 
bus dicta. Phytogr. t.197,f.4. Juniperus forté major Americana, 
Parkinson Theatr. ag Viste magnitudinis est hujus [sic] Arbor ut 
et aliorum relatu nos monuit D. Jacobus Petever.”’ Plukenet t’s figure, 
* See Journ. Bot. 1883, 259, footnote. 
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