JUNIPERUS RECUEVA, J. SABINA. 281 



rising above a few inches from the ground, closely resembling 

 the common Savin in the colour of its foliage, with the young 

 growth more glaucescent. It is the representative of the Savin in 

 North America, where it is found on the sandy beaches of New- 

 foundland, around Lake Huron, on the borders of swamps from 

 Maine to Wisconsin, and along the upper course of the Missouri. 



Dr. Siebold affirms that it is also found in Japan, not only in 

 cultivation, but also abundantly in a wild state on the mountains of 

 Nippon (Flat: Jap., ii., 60). 



Juniperus recurva. — A shrub or bush, from 5 to 8 feet high, 

 growing among the crags and rocks of the Himalayas, from 

 Cashmere to Bhotan, but in the valleys, a tree 30 feet high,* 

 It is a very distinct species with recurved, pendulous, feathery 

 branchlets, clothed with loosely imbricated pointed leaves, generally 

 in threes, of a greyish- green colour ; intermixed with these are 

 the rusty-brown chaffy or withered persistent leaves of the preceding 

 year, which, with the pendulous branchlets, give the plant a 

 drooping and sickly but picturesque appearance. 



The dioecious character of the Junipers is often shown by a marked 

 dissimilarity in habit or appearance in the different sexes of the same 

 species. Juniperus recurva is an instance of this. In this species the 

 mas or male form is more dense, dwarfer, and the foliage looser 

 than in the fcemina or berry bearing form, which is more open, and 

 has the branchlets and small growth more pendulous and the leaves 

 more closely appressed to the stem. It is the latter form that is 

 most commonly seen in British shrubberies. 



Juniperus Sabina is the common Savin of gardens and shrub- 

 beries, well known as a bushy much branched shrub of spreading 

 irregular habit. The branchlets are entirely covered with small, 

 scale-like, imbricated leaves, emitting a very disagreeable odour when 

 bruised. The berries are blackish-purple, and about the size of a 

 small currant. 



Habitat. — The sub- Alpine districts of southern Europe, from the 

 Pyrenees to the Caucasus. 



Introduced into England prior* to 1548j as it appears in Turner's 

 "Names of Herbes," published in that year. 



* Sir J. Di Hooker, ex Prod.) xyi., p. 482. 



