140 JUNIPERUS, OB 



angular, pendulous, and but little forked, flexible, and of a dull 

 yellow colour. Berries very small, solitary, globular, smooth 

 on the surface, and of a glaucous violet colour when ripe, 

 nearly sessile, or on very short branchlets, imbricated with 

 oval-pointed short leaves. 



This kind forms a handsome pendulous bush, from eight to 

 ten feet high, and is a native of the Island of Loo-Choo and 

 the north of China. 



It is quite hardy. 



Section II. SABINA.. The Savin Junipers. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, mostly awl-shaped, slightly diver- 

 gent, and loosely imbricated in the adult plants. 

 Berries, mostly very small, and numerous. 



No. 14. JuNiPEKUS Beemudiana, Linnaeus, the Bermuda, or 

 Pencil Cedar. 

 Syn. Juniperus oppositifolia, Monch. 



„ „ Barbadensis, Linnceus. 



„ „ Cedrus Bermudas, Ray. 



Leaves of two sorts, either in pairs, opposite, and very much 

 drawn together along the shoots, or in whorls of three, spread 

 open and needle-shaped, very dense, nearly half an inch long, 

 tapering from the base to the point, rigid, smooth, narrow, and 

 quite straight, channelled above, and glaucous, slightly keeled, • 

 and without any gland on the under side, light green when 

 young, but much darker when old, and seldom growing on the 

 under part of the branches. The other form, which is that of 

 the berry-bearing kind (female), has the leaves on the mature 

 plant, in opposite pairs, short, closely drawn together along the 

 branches, imbricated, and not so dense, ovate-lanceolate, and 

 in four rows. Stem erect. Branches spreading, and furnished 

 with a great number of smaller ones, completely covered with 

 leaves. Berries small, globular, solitary on the ends of the 

 branchlets, and of a dark brown colour, incliuing to purple 

 when ripe. 



