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JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS COMPEESSA, Gamhre. 

 Syn. Juniperus Hibernica compressa, Hort. 

 Hispanica, Presl, not Miller. 

 compressa, Binz. 

 communis -Hispanica, Lawson. 

 Suecica pyramidalis, Mwnetti'. 

 •This variety is easily distinguished from the Irish Juniper by 

 its branches being very much shorter, slenderer, and all erect, 

 and forming in consequence a very straight and compact pyra- 

 mid, with the leaves closer together along the branchlets, much 

 shorter, less spreading, and with the bark of the branches 

 much darker in colour. 



A small, compact variety, with a dense, pyramidal-shaped 

 head, found indigenous on the Pyrenees and Apennines, at an 

 elevation of 5000 feet. 



No. 4. JUNIPERTJS CONFERTA, PmiotoTe, the Crowded-leaved 



Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus littoralis, Maximo. 

 Leaves thickly placed in threes, linear, somewhat three- 

 sided, rigid, openly imbricated, sharp-pointed, and half an inch 

 long, and half a line wide ; with the upper side channelled and 

 longitudinally marked with white, and the under one convex 

 and keeled. Berries exactly globose, quite smooth, and of a 

 tawny-brown colour, thickly covered with a violet glaucous 

 bloom, and rather more than one- third of an inch long and the 

 same broad. 



It is found at Hakodadi, in Japan, and resembles Juniperus 

 rigida ; but differs from it in having the leaves more crowded, 

 grosser and triangular, and the berries much larger. 



No. 5. Juniperus drupacea, Labill, the Plum-fruited Juniper. 

 Syn. Arceuthos drupacea, Antcmie. 



„ Juniperus latifolia arborea, Tournefort. 

 „ major, Bellonius. 

 Leaves, in whorls of three, thickly set all round the branches. 



