438 Conrtfcr@—Scguota. 
thrive well on well-drained soil, and grow at an extraordinarily 
rapid rate. A native of California. 
Dimmara is the last genus of this tribe, but all the species 
are tender. They are large dicecious trees with flat coriaceous 
leaves, and oblong or spherical densely imbricated cones with 
a solitary seed at the base of each scale. D. australis is the 
Kanri Pine of New Zealand. 
Tripp Il.—CUPRESSINES. 
Fertile flowers in small cones or strobiles consisting of a few 
bracts and no scales. Ovules and seeds erect, one or more at 
the base of each scale. 
8. JUNIPERUS. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs, often with two kinds of leaves, and 
usually diwcious flowers. Leaves needle-shaped, linear or lan- 
ceolate, rigid or flexible, scattered or imbricated, not clusterert. 
Male flowers in small axillary clustered aments. Fruit small, 
berry-like, composed of a few closely appressed at length fleshy 
scales with 1 or more seeds at the base of each scale. This 
genus is very numerous in specics and forms which are very 
difficult of discrimination, and it is almost impossible to deter- 
mine them from the most carefully framed descriptions, much 
less from the short notes we are able to afford space for. But 
those who are familiar with some of the species may glean 
from our comparative characters what the others are hke. The 
species are all natives of temperate and cold regions, mainly in 
the north. The classical name for the common species. 
1. J. Chinénsis.—This is a very handsome dicecious shrub. 
The male and female plants are of distinct habit and aspect, 
the former being the handsomer of the two. Leaves ternate or 
opposite, linear, flat, acute and spreacling, or small, scale-like and 
closely imbricated. On young plants and in the males they 
are nearly all of the first sort. The male plant is more uni- 
versally cultivated than the female. It is a dense much- 
branched shrub with dark green foliage and somewhat drooping 
branches. The flowers are produced in great abundance in 
early Spring. The male plant bears the alias of J. flagelli- 
formis, and has long pendulous branches of a glaucous hue. 
Native of China and Japan, and quite hardy. 
2. J. Japonica, syn. J. proctimbens.—A dwarf dense bushy 
