10 THE BERMUDA JUNIPER AND ITS ALLIES. 
remaining Trees). Why then it should not thrive in Old England, 
I conceive is from our want of Industry: It grows in the Bogs of 
America, and in the Mountains of Asia; it seems there is no place 
affrights it; I have frequently rais’d it of the Seeds, which I set 
like Bay-berries; and we might have of the very best kind in the 
orld, from the Sai Islands, though now almost utterly 
exhausted there also, and so the most incomparable of that sacred 
wood, like to be quite destr pie bs our negligence, which is by nature 
say be Sag ut that ich we have from Barbadoes and 
Jama spurious sort, — of so porous a nang as, that 
Wine will aaah oes 4 it; yet that which they so call in New- 
England, is a lofty grower, ‘which being saw’d into Planks makes 
excellent k stoma: and everlasting: They shingle their houses with 
it, an e it in all their edifices: why have we not more of these 
species Sato over amongst us both to plant and work out? 
The ‘‘ Red Cedar” is quite hardy, and is represented in British 
gardens by several elegant varieties. 
Another matter may be briefly referred to. In order to account 
for the presence of the juniper in the islands of Bermuda, it is con- 
jectured that the seeds may have been transported from Florida or 
other points of the American coast. Long separation and adaptation 
to new 
suggests the enquiry how it is that the Jamaica Juniper, though 
so much further from the North American Continent, is nevertheless 
indistinguishable from J. virginiana? e only e eaponsiate that 
m the 
“speculation, but, in the absence of means of confirmation or 
refutation, have ‘ttle practical importance. 
It may be Rise ter to add a brief description of the Bermudan 
and of the ican specimens kindly furnished by Mr. Haycock 
and Mr. Gaweeit: 
J. BERMUDIANA ;} as dense ramosa, ramulis confertis ascend- 
aay tetragonis ; foliis — oppositis qveneealls arcte quadri- 
tis, singulis a 2 mill. long. appressis lineari- 
ohlongis subacutis dorso eae glandula ee lineari notatis ; 
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inatis ; amen masculis lineari-oblongis obtusis fere 1 cent. 
par ; antheri aurantiacis; fructu stipitato globoso purpureo- 
aurantiaco, ere - diam., seminibus 2-3. 
Ex ins. Bermud. misit cl. Haycock ! 
The sap-wood is of a pale fawn-colour, and the heart-wood of a 
rich reddish brown. 
J. virginiana; arbor diffusa, ramis laxiusculis, ramulis ultimis 
