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AKBORETUM AND FHUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



the varieties l«, (i</. each; at BoHwyller, the varieties, 2 francs each. At New 

 York, plants of the Swedish juniper, which requires protection there during 

 winter, are 50 cents each. 



* 2. ./. Oxy'cedrUS L. The' Sharp Cedar, or brown-berried, Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Sp PL, 1470. j Willd Sp., 4. p. 854.; Lam. Diet., 2. p. 625.: Desf. Fl. Atl., 2 



p. •::»>. ; Lois. Fl. Gall., p. 684. ; NT. Du Ham., 6. p. 47. 

 Sunonymcs. J. major Cam. A"/)//., 54. ; J. m. monspelithisium Lob. Ic, 2. p. 223. ; J. phcenicea &c , 

 Ji. Hist , 1. p. 277.; J- major, t S:c., C. Bauh.. p. 489., Ibum. 7m^., 589., Du Ham. Arb., 

 t. 188., nati Hist., 1115.; Cedrus phcenicea Matth. Valgr., 127.; Oxycedrus Cites. Hist, 

 p. 39. ; 0. pheenfcea Ax/. 1'cnipt., p. 853. ; the prickly Cedar ; le Cade, Fr. ; Spanische Wach- 

 nolder, Gfer. 

 Sa/rraatngJ. Du Ham. Arb., 2. t. 128. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 15. f. 2. ; our fig. 2352. to our usual scale; 

 am\fig. 2351. of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves in threes, spreading, mucronate, shorter than the 

 berries. (Willd.) An evergreen shrub, native of Spain, Portugal, and the 

 south of France. Introduced before 1739; flowering in May and June. 



Description, $c. A shrub, closely allied to J. communis, from 10 ft. to 12 ft. 

 high, and feathered from the ground. The branches are small and taper, with- 

 out angles. Berries very 

 large, of a brownish red, 

 and marked with two 

 white lines. This species 

 is said to form a handsome 

 shrub when allowed suffi- 

 cient space ; and to be 

 rather more tender than J. 

 communis. In France, an 



235 1 



essential oil is distilled 

 from its wood, called huile 

 de cade, which is used 

 in veterinary medicine. 



There are small plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, at Kew, and at 

 a few other places ; but we have never been able to see any above 1 ft. in 

 height. 



» 3. J. macroca'rpa Smith. The large-fruited Juniper. 



Identification. Smith in Fl. Gra?c. Prod., 2. p. 263. ; ? Tenore Syll. Fl. Neapol. 

 Synonyme. ./. major, bacca casrulea, Town. Inst., 589. 



vingi. Lob. Icon., 2. p. 223. f. 1. ; Tourn. Inst., 589. f. ; and our fig. 2353. of the natural size, 



copied from the figure of L'Obel. 



Spec Char., fyc. Leaves ternate, spreading, mucronate, sharply keeled, 



one-nerved. Berries elliptical, longer than the leaf. (Smith Fl. Gr., 2. 



A ihrub. a native of (ireece, with leaves like those of J. Ox. 



# cedrus, but the berries are twice as large, elliptic or obovate, and 



black covered with a violet bloom. There is a specimen in Sibthorp's 



herbarium, in the Linnaean Society. (Du Ham.) Berries have been 



D) the Honourable W. Fox Strangways, under the name 



I macroca'rpa, [but winch were of a brownish red, and only differ. 



ing from tho-.c at J. Ox^cedrus in size,) accompanied by the following 



r< narkl ! — "Junlperui macrocarpa is described in Tenore's 8yllog.Fl. 



It is common along the 6ea-shore, particularly 



Bala, < iirna, and Licola ; and is alow thick bush, having neither 



the cedar-like Ipread of the common juniper, nor the upright stature 



or ./. OxfctdxiM. •/. OxJ'ccdrus appears to be intermediate between 



./ macrocarpa ; having the small fruit of the former, 



and the apreading pricklj leavet, wide apart, of the latter. It is not 



aoo ni Italy, bat ii abundant In [stria and Dalmatta, where it 



OxyY-edri.— w. Fog Strangwayi. January 20. 1838." 



r Don dOUbtl much whether Tenore's ./. macrocarpa be any 

 Mian a variety of ./. Oxycedrus. As Mr. Strangways has 

 ml tO the Horticultural Society, and to other 

 ,.!*, it will be known in a few years what it is. 2353 



• n. J. /. DB1 i-\ I i. a Lab., A r . Du Ham. The drupaceous, or large-fruited, 



Juniper. 



ird Icon riant Syr. Dec, 2. p. B. ; Mart. Mill., No. II.; Desfont. Hist, des 



