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mucro.^ Seeds usually two, rarely one or three, immersed in a resinous flesh, ovoid- 

 triquetrous, compressed, narrowed towards the apex, shining brown, with two or 

 three longitudinal furrows, and verrucose on both surfaces towards the summit. 



Varieties 



The Savin, like most species of juniper, is variable in habit in the wild state in 

 Europe, either occurring as a low prostrate shrub with the branches widely extended 

 and lying on the ground, or as a tall upright dense pyramidal shrub, with horizontal 

 or ascending branches. A fastigiate form has also been observed, similar in 

 appearance to the Swedish variety of the common juniper. 



The leaves on the adult plant are usually small, scale-like, blunt at the apex, 

 and closely appressed, acicular leaves being not very common in the typical form. 

 The following varieties, differing in foliage, have been described : — 



1. Var. lusitanica, Ascherson and Graebner, Syn. Mitteleurop. Flora, i. 253 

 (1898). 



Juniperus lusitanica, Miller, Gard. Did. ed. 8, No. 11 (1768). 



Juniperus sabinoides, Grisebach, Spicil. Fl. Rum. ii. 352 (1848) (not Nees'^). 



An upright shrub, with scale-like leaves, which are sharply acuminate at the 

 apex. This variety is common in southern Europe. 



2. Var. tamariscifolia, Solander, in Alton, Hort. Kew. iii. 414 (1789). 



A low spreading shrub, with mostly persistent juvenile acicular foliage ; leaves 

 on the ultimate branchlets in opposite pairs, slightly spreading, glandular on the 

 dorsal surface, bright green in tint, about \ in. long; on the older branchlets, 

 occasionally in whorls of threes. This variety, which has been known in 

 cultivation for at least 200 years, is occasionally met with in the wild state 

 in Europe. 



3. Var. variegata, Carriere, Conif. 36 {1855). 



A dwarf shrub, with adult scale -like foliage, the tips of some of the young 

 branchlets being creamy white. This is mentioned by Loudon, and was known over 

 a century ago in gardens. It is often planted in rockeries. 



4. Var. prostrata, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2499 (1838). 



Juniperus prostrata, Persoon, Syn. PL ii. 632 (1807); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 183 (1900); 



Britten and Shafer, N. Amer. Trees, 120 (1908). 

 Juniperus Sabina, ysx. procumbens, Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 647 (18 14); Jack, in £ot. Gaz. xviii. 372 



(1893). 

 Juniperus repens, Nuttall, Gen. Amer. ii. 245 (181 8). 



A depressed, usually procumbent shrub, seldom more than 3 ft. high. Leaves 

 usually of two kinds ; the scale-like leaves appressed in four ranks, mucronate at the 

 apex, with a well-marked depressed resin-gland, and similar to those of the type ; 



1 The berries are in rare cases open and not coalesced at the summit, the tips of the seeds protruding. This sport is 

 known as var. gymnosperma, Schroter, op. cit. 333, fig. 176 (1906). 



2 /. saiinoides, Nees, in Linmta, xix. 706 (1847), is better known as /. mexka.ia, Sprengel, Syst. iii. 909 (1826) and 

 IS a native of Texas and Mexico. ' ^ v ;> 



