146 JUNIPERUS, OE 



are very small, ovate, somewhat obtuse at the apex, concave on 

 the back, with a sunken gland in the centre, and closely im- 

 bricated in four rows. The principal branches are rather long, 

 and obUquely extended, with the lesser ones and intermediate 

 branchlets short, numerous, thickly placed, and covered with 

 open, stiff, spiny, awl-shaped leaves, mostly in threes ; fertile 

 branchlets short, slender, much forked, and cylindrical, or 

 somewhat quadriform by the small, closely imbricated leaves. 

 Berries solitary, terminal, ovate, or oblong, smooth, nearly 

 black, half an inch in diameter, and containing one large ovate 

 seed. 



A low-spreading, dense shrub, three or four feet high, and 

 somewhat resembling the common Savin, but destitute of the 

 strong odour of that kind. 



It is found in Siberia, on the Songarian and Baical Alps, and 

 on the Altai and Daurian Mountains. 



No. 20. JuNiPERUS PROSTRATA, Persoon, the Prostrate-branched 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus repensj NvMall. 



Hudsonica, Loddiges. 



Sabioa prostrata, Loudon. 

 „ humilis, Hooker. 



horizontalis, Mcenck 



Alpina, Loddiges. 



fcetida multicauhs, Spach. 

 Leaves in twos, alternately opposite, very short, loosely 

 placed over each other, and irregularly four-rowed, very dense, 

 concave above, convex below, and terminating in .a very 

 sharp point, stem-clasping, dull shining green, and with the 

 ends pointing outwards and quite free. Stems prostrate, long, 

 slender, laying flat on the ground, flexible, and spreading; 

 smaller ones short, dense, alternate, straight, and thickly placed 

 on the upper side of the branches. Berries small, globular, or 

 oblong, tuberculated, and when ripe of a glaucous black or 

 blackish violet colour, on short branchlets, and solitary. 



