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much less common than so fine a shrub deserves to be. The plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, after being 10 years planted, is 10 ft. high. 

 In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, it is 19 ft. high, and the 

 diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6d. 

 each ; and at Boll wy Her, 3 francs. 



« £- 10. J. (p.) ly'cia L. The Lycian Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1471.; Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 855. ; Pall. Ross., ii. p. 14. t. 56. ; Ait. Hort. 



Ke'w., v. p. 415. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. J. p. /3 l^cia N. Du Ham.,\'\. p. 47. ; C£drus phcenicea altera Plinit et Theophrasti 



Lob. Ic., ii. p 221 ; C. folio Cupressi, &a, C. Bauh. Pin., p. 487. 

 Engravings. Pall. Ross., t. 56. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 17. ; and our fig. 2367., and fig. 2368. from Pallas. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves in threes, imbricate on all sides, ovate, obtuse. 

 (Willd.) Miller describes the Lycian cedar as having its branches "growing 

 erect, and covered with a reddish brown bark. 

 Leaves .small, obtuse. Male flowers at the ends of 

 the branches, in a conical anient ; and the fruit single 

 from the axils below them, on the same branch. 

 Berries large, oval, and, when ripe, brown." Ac- 

 cording to Pallas, ./. lycia is an entirely prostrate 

 shrub, with the trunk branching from the very 

 in, and often thicker than the human arm. 

 This, and the branches, are often variously deformed, 

 with scarcely any outer bark. The wood smells very 

 Strong, like that of the Bermudas cedar. Branches 

 and branchletS wand-like, and covered with a testa- 

 ceous hark. Shoots dark green, dichotomous, and 

 imbricate with scale-formed sharp leaves. Berries 

 .rial, globular, middle-sized, nearly black when 

 , aod covered with a glauCOUS bloom; con- 2.'i07 



ihlg 3 or 4 stones. i'ailas adds that it greatly resembles the dwarf 

 id that it differs principally in the greater thickness of the shoots, 



