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This variety is very much smaller, more spreading and 

 flatter than the common Savin, and rises but little from the 

 ground. It is the Green-Carpet Juniper, and is not unfre- 

 quently confounded with the Grey-Carpet Juniper (Juniperus 

 Sabinoides), to which it bears considerable resemblance, except 

 in colour. It is found on the mountains in the south of 

 Europe. 



JuNiPEETjs Sabina vaeiegata, Loudon. 



This variety diflfers from the ordinary Savin in having some 

 of its branchlets and foliage pale-yellowish white, intermixed 

 with the green ones, and forms a very pretty variety. 



No. 24. JUNIPEEUS Sabinoides, Endlicher, the Grey-Carpet 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus Sabina tamariscifolia, Alton. 

 Alpina, jETorf, 

 „ elegans. Booth. 

 „ fcetida tamariscifolia, Spach. 



thurifera, Parlatore, not Lambert or London. 

 ,, „ cinerea, Carrihre. 



Leaves in opposite pairs, the lower ones spreading, almost 

 needle-shaped, very short, glaucous, blue on the upper side, 

 broadest at the base, tapering to a very sharp point, half opened, 

 and spread outwards, but on older plants much more approach- 

 ing together, smaller, scale-formed, loosely imbricated, and 

 sharp-pointed. Branches spreading out horizontal, very dense 

 and stiff; branchlets very numerous, straight, short and tufted. 

 Berries quite round, of a blackish violet colour, one-seeded, 

 larger than those of the Common Savin, and a little flatter, 

 and more glaucous, 



A dense little bush, spreading out horizontally, and not more 

 than two or three feet high, found in Spain and the mountains 

 of Southern Europe. 



