CHAP. CXI II. 



CONi'fERA. /UNl'PERUS. 



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Synonymes. Hdbhel fructus Clus. Hist. Ic, 



31. ;' J. major Bel/on Obs., 2. p. 162. 

 Engravings. Clus. Icon. ; Labillard. Icon. ; our 



fig. 2354. reduced to our usual scale from the 



figure of LaBillardiere ; and Jigs. 2355. and 



2356. of the natural size, also from the same 



authority. Fig. 2355. shows the ."scales of the 



fruit much opener than is usual in Juniperus; 



it is, however, a correct copy of the original. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, spreading, acute, three times shorter than the fruit. Nut 3-celled. 

 {Labillard.) A shrub, a native of Syria. Introduced in 1820 ; but we have not seen the plant. 



Description, fyc. Stem erect, branched. Branches 

 spreading; branchlets 3-sided. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, somewhat glaucous, with a double line above. 

 Fruit testaceous, often three times as long as the 

 leaves ; large, roundish, angular, dark blue, with a 

 glaucous bloom, and marked with six or nine retuse 

 tubercles. Nut subovate, large, with three small 

 cells; very hard, hollowed above with three lines; 

 kernel solitary, oblong, fixed by a pellicle to the 

 bottom of the cell. A native of Mount Casius, and 

 probably the same with the greater junipers observed 

 by Bcllonius on Mount Taurus, which he describes as 

 rising to the height of a cypress, and bearing a sweet 

 fruit, the size and shape of an olive, which is eaten by 

 the inhabitants of the mountains. {Mart. Mill.) This 

 species was seen by Desfontaines in Paris, in the nursery of M. Cels 

 East, under the name of Habhel. 



Clusius received it from the 



1 5. J. virginia v na L. The Virginian Juniper, or Bed Cedar. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 147 1. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 853. ; Michx. Arb. For., 3. p. 42. ; North 

 Amer. Syl., 3. p. 222. ; Mart. Mill., No. 6. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 415. 



Synonymes- J. major americana llaii Hist., 1413. ; J. maxima, &c, Sloan, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, 

 Bon Jard., ed. 1837 , Laws. Man., p. 399. 



Engravings. Michx. Arb. For., 3. t. 5. ; North Amer. Syl., 3. t. 155. ; our fig. 2357. ; and the plates 

 of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, the three growing together at the base ; 

 young ones imbricated, old ones spreading. ( Willd.) An evergreen tree ; 

 a native of North America. Introduced before 1664; flowering in May, 

 and ripening its fruit in October. 

 Varieties. 



i. J. v. 2humilis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — The only plant that we have seen 

 is at Messrs. Loddiges's, and it is there so very small and sickly, 

 that it is difficult to form any opinion respecting it. 



} J. d. 3 carolinidna ; J. caroliniana Du Roi, Mill. Diet., No. 2— Miller says that the lower 

 leaves of this kind are like those of the Swedish juniper ; but that the upper leaves are 

 like those of the cypress; while in the Virginian cedar all the leaves are like those of the 

 juniper. The name is in Messrs. Loddiges's catalogue for 1837 ; but, as the plant in 

 their collection is dead, we can say nothing as to the difference between it and the species. 



Other Varieties. The red cedar varies exceedingly from seed. At White 

 Knights, where there are some hundreds of trees, some are low and spread- 



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