DiOECIA MGNADEtPHIA. 623 



Jong footftalks. The female ones 'arife fingly., 

 wichotit a Spaiba. The petals are three, white, 



;• with yellow ungues^ round, and of a thin deli- 



cate texture. The Jiamina are nine, diipofcd in 

 three ferics ; fix of them are fhorter than the 

 others, and curved outwardly •, the remaining 



:.r , three have each a fetaceous fubulate appendage 



:, ' arifing from its bafe, refembling a ftylc. The 



ftyles are fix. The capfule is coriaceous, round, 



... and has fix cells, containing numerous, fmall, 



. , • roundifh feed. 



The plant increafes by runners, furnifhed with pen- 



' ■■", dulous gems, fupported on long footftalks. 



Thefe gems confift of two fiipulaceous fcales, 



". '■■ ^ ^ . folded together, within which are curioufly en- 



velop'd the embryo leaves of the future plant. 



MONADELPHIA. 



JUNIPERUS. (7^«. p/. 1134, 

 MAS. Jr.ienti, calyx fquamae. Cor. o. Siara. 3. 

 FEM. Ccl g-partitus. Vetala 3. Styli 3. Becca 3- 

 fperma, tribus aiberculis calycis inzcqualis. 



(emmmisu JUNIPERUS foliis ternis patentibus mucronatis, 

 bacca longioribus. Sp. pi. 1470. {Ger. cm. 1372. 

 ; ;. •. . /.I. Blackwell. 1. 184.; 

 vV • V.' The common Juniper. AngUs. 



An-t' aiteal. Gaulis. 

 In v/oods and heaths, and on the fides of moun- 



tains frequent, fe. V. 



This 



