1422 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Juniperus procumbens, Siebold, in Ann. Soc. Hort. Pays-Bas, 1844, p. 31, and in 

 Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. ii. 59, t. 127, fig. iii. (1870) (not Sargent'). 



Juniperus chinensis, yzx. procumbens, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 21 (1847). 



A prostrate shrub similar to /. squamata in habit, but differing in the branchlets 

 being glaucouS- white on the edges of the pulvini : leaves longer, their free part \ in. 

 long, gradually tapering to an acuminate spine-like apex; upper surface concave 

 and covered except along the margins with a white stomatic band, divided except 

 near the apex by an elevated and usually green midrib ; lower surface convex, bluish, 

 spotted with white, and with a median furrow which is variable in length. Fruit 

 not seen. 



This beautiful shrub was first described by Siebold,^ who stated that it was wild 

 in the mountains of Japan, and was cultivated in gardens and temple woods at 

 Nagasaki. It has been collected since only by Faurie,* who found it at high 

 elevations in Hondo. 



Siebold considered it to be perhaps J. nipponica, Maximowicz,* a species with 

 which it has no affinity ; and subsequent botanists confused it with J. chinensis^ 

 a totally different species. It resembles J. squamata very closely, differing 

 only in the glaucous tint of the leaves and branchlets ; but in the absence of fruit 

 cannot be safely united with that species. 



J. procumbens is said'' to have been introduced, by living plants, into the 

 Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg in 1864 ; but does not appear to have been known 

 in England until of late years.^ It is now imported largely from Japan, and was a 

 striking feature in the exhibit of Japanese plants at the Anglo- Japanese Exhibition of 

 1909. It is the most ornamental of the creeping junipers, and is occasionally sold 

 under the erroneous name of/, litoralisf a totally distinct species. So far as I know 

 it has not yet produced fruit in England. (A. H.) 



^ J. procumbens, Sargent, Forest Flora of Japan, 78 (1894), and in Garden and Forest, x. 421 (1897), is a variety of 

 J. chinensis, described on p. 1432. 



^ One of Siebold's original specimens, a branch without fruit, of J. procumbens is in the Kew herbarium, where it was 

 sent from the Leyden Museum. 



3 Masters, in Bull. Herb. Boissier, vi. 274 (1898), refers two specimens collected by Faurie, " No. 47, summit of Sennintc^e, 

 and No. 3409, summit of Ckokkai," to /. recurva, var. squamata. No. 3409 is in the Kew herbarium, and is identical with 

 J. procumbens, Siebold. 



*/. nipponica, Maximowicz, in Mil. Biol. vi. 374 (1867), is a remarkably distinct species, of which little is known, 

 except the original specimen described by Maximowicz. This species has not been introduced into Europe. 



5 Siebold's plant has been much confused with /. chinensis, var. japonica, which is also cultivated in Japan. Gordon's 

 specimen of J. japonicaJ>rocumbens in the Kew herbarium is _/. chinensis. 



' Bretschneider, Hist. Europ. Bot. Disc. China, 610 (1898). 



' The plant at Kew was introduced from Japan in 1893. 



V- litoralis, Maximowicz, in Mil. Biol. vi. 375 (1867), is a sea-shore plant, which grows abundantly on the shore 

 of Hakodate Bay in Yezo, and near Honjo on the west side of Hondo, where it was found by J. Veitch in 1892. It also grows 

 in Kiusiu and the Liu Kiu Islands. It has three-seeded berries, and has some affinity with /. rigida. It has never been 

 introduced into England so far as we are aware. Bretschneider, op. cit. 610, referring to it as /. conferta, Parlatore, says that 

 it was introduced into St. Petersburg in 1864, along with J. procumbens, Siebold. 



