Juniperus 14^7 



lo in. in diameter. It is said^ to be occasionally cultivated in the south of France 

 and in Algeria; but we have seen no specimens. There is a small tree in the 

 Botanic Garden at Genoa, and a larger one in the Botanic Garden at Naples, which 

 was bearing ripe fruit in March 1910. (H. J. E.) 



JUNIPERUS THURIFERA 



Juniperus thurifera, Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1039 (1753); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2503 (1838); 

 Parlatore, in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 487 (1868); Laguna, Fl. Forest. Hispan., i. 103 

 (1883); De Coincy, in Bull. Soc. Bat. France, xlv. 430 (1898); Kent, Veitch's J/a«. Conif. 

 191 (1900). 



Juniperus hispanica, Miller, Gard. Did. ed. 7, No. 13 (1757), and ed. 8, No. 13 (1768). 



Juniperus sabinoides, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 23 (1847) (in part). 



Juniperus cinerea, Carrifere, Conif. 35 (1867). 



A tree, attaining in Spain a height of 30 ft. to 40 ft. Leaves dimorphic. 

 Adult foliage, with flattened branchlet- systems, pinnately divided mostly in one 

 plane. Young branchlets tetragonal, slender, -^ in. in diameter ; leaves in opposite 

 pairs in four ranks, appressed but free at their acuminate apices, ovate, about ^V i". 

 long, adnate to the branchlet in their basal half, marked on the back with an oblong 

 glandular depression, minutely denticulate in margin. Juvenile foliage often 

 present on adult trees ; leaves in opposite pairs in four ranks, spreading, acicular, 

 decurrent, -^^ to ^ in. long, whitened on the upper surface. 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit on short scaly stalks, ripening in the second year, 

 sub-globose, ^ in. or a little more in diameter, dark blue with a slight glaucous 

 bloom when mature ; composed of six scales in opposite decussate pairs, two at the 

 base, the upper four scales meeting at the apex, which is marked with their lines of 

 separation ; each scale with a minute mucro. Seeds, two, three, or four, immersed 

 in a granular sweet fragrant flesh, ovate, triquetrous, \ in. long, shining brown, 

 smooth, narrowed at the apex to a curved point, with two or three oblong resin-pits 

 at the base. 



I. Var. gallica, De Coincy, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliv. 232 (1897), ^"^^ 

 xlv. 430 (1898) ; Holmes, Pharmac. Soc. Museum {London) Report, 1907, p. 26. 



A small tree, apparently differing only from the type, in the one to three seeds, 

 being striate and not smooth on the surface, more prominent at the apex, and less 

 angular. 



This variety, which is the French form of the species, was first noticed in 1830 

 by Mutel, who gave it the name oi J. Sabina, var. arborea.^ 



It appears to be confined to the Dauphin^, where it occurs at a few stations in 

 the valley of the Isere, in the immediate neighbourhood of Grenoble ; and in the 

 valley of the Durance, chiefly near Embrun. Near Grenoble it is found on the 



> Sargent, Silva N. Anur. x. 83 (1896). 



* Mathieu, I^/are Forestih-e, 519 (1897) refers the trees at Saint Crepin toy. SaUna. Cf. also Vidal, in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 France, xliv. 51 {1897). 



