1086 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonymes. Sabine, Fr,; stinkender Wachholder, Ger.; Planta daunata and Cipresso des Maghi, 
Ital. ‘ 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 56. f,2.; and our jig. 2026. 
. r.. &c. Leaves oval, opposite, imbricated, somewhat acute, convex 
— ie fa the male ferro pedunculate. Berries of a blackish blue, 
generally monospermous. (N. Du Ham.) A low evergreen shrub. South 
of Europe and Tauria. Height 7 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced before 1548; 
flowering in March and April, and ripening its blackish blue fruit in the 
spring of the following year. 
Varieties. hehe 
* J.S. 1 cupressifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. v. p.414. J. lusitanica Mill. 
Dict. No. 11:; Sabina Dod. Pempt. 854. ; la Sabine male, Fr. 
(fig. 2021.) — Leaves like those of a cypress. _ ; 
a J, 8. 2 tamariscifolia Ait. 1c. J. Sabina Mill. Dict. No. 10. la 
‘i Sabine femelle (jig. 2022.) 
a J. S. 3 folis variegatis Mart. Mill.— 
Leaves variegated. 
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J S. cupressifolia. 2022. J. §. tamariscifdlia. 2025. J. S. prostrata. 2024. J. S. alpina. 
2. J.S.4 prostrata. J. prostrata Michx..; J. repens Nutt. ; J. hudsdnica 
Lodd. Cat. 1836. (fig. 2023.) —A low trailing plant, seldom rising 
above 6 or 8 inches in height, but rooting into the soil, and extend- 
ing its branehes to a great distance. 
% J. 8. 5 alpina, J. alpina Lodd. Cat. 1836. (fig. 2024.)—Procumbent, 
‘and more slender in its habit ; but, in other respects, only slightly 
different from J. prostrata. 
The savin, though generally seen, in British gardens, as a low spreading 
shrub, has sometimes an upright trunk, clothed in a reddish brown bark, and 
rising to the height of 10 or 12 feet, or even higher. Its branches are nearly 
straight, very much ramified, and form, with the trunk, a 
regular pyramid. Its young branches are entirely covered 
with imbricated leaves, which have a very strong and dis- 
agreeable odour, and a very bitter taste. The male flowers 48 
are disposed in small catkins, on peduncles covered with 
little imbricated leaves, and are dispersed Jaterally along _¥% 
the youngest branches. The female flowers are generally ¢ 
produced on separate trees, and are disposed in the same %) 
manner: they are succeeded by oval berries, of a blue so ¥ 
deep as to be almost black, and are about the size of a 
currant: they generally contain only one seed, which is 
long, oval, and somewhat compressed. A very common ornamental ever- 
green, thriving in the poorest soils, and in exposed situations ; in the latter 
ee an humble prostrate shrub, and in the former attaining a consider- 
able size, 
2025. J. Sabina. 
