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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



D. Fruit globular, glaucous brownish-violet with 2-3 seeds ; the scale 

 leaves without notches and blunt at tip. Chinese Juniper (609) 

 — Juniperus chin^nsis. 



D. Fruit small, glaucous, brownish, 1-2-seeded on short straight 

 stems ripening the first year ; leaves very small and sharp-pointed. 

 Virginian Juniper or Red Cedar — Juniperus virgini^na. 



D. Fruit larger, light blue, pendulous, borne on curved stems, 1-4- 

 seeded, ripening the second year ; low spreading shrubs with 

 strong disagreeable odor when bruised. Savin or Shrubby Red 

 Cedar or Juniper (610) or Waukegan Juniper (611) or 

 Tamarisk-leaved Juniper (012) — Juniperus Sabina. 



Prostrate Juniper, 



Of the above species, com- 

 munis, chin^nsis, virginitoa, and 

 Sabina have most of the dwarf 

 varieties. With the fruit there 

 will be but little difficulty in cor- 

 rectly naming them, but without 

 the fruit there will be much 

 trouble. Sabina can be readily 

 separated by its odor from virgin- 

 iana, which it most resembles. 

 Below are given most of the va- 

 rieties that are shrubby. 



Curved-branched Juniper 

 (608) — Juniperus reciirva — is a 

 shrub or tree to 30 feet. It has dwarf varieties of which the lowest one. 

 Prostrate Juniper (613) — 

 squama,ta, — has prostrate or trail- 

 ing branches, leaves straight and 

 slightly spreading, of a glaucous 

 bluish green color; Dense- 

 branohed Juniper — dfiiisa — has 

 short crowded branchlets and 

 curved grayish green leaves. 



Common Juniper (607) — Juni- 

 perus communis — in its tree form 

 ranges from 20 to 30 feet but is 

 often a shrub of 4 to 5 feet; 

 RouNiinn Juniper — hemi. 

 sphiirica — is, as its name indi- 

 cates, a rounded shrub with many 



Fig. 014. — Spreading Juniper. 



