38 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



rougher; both have loose and flat-growing roots. 

 It thrives chiefly in rocky and cold situations. 



Pliny e , who, as is usual, follows Theophrastus, 

 says that Phoenicia produces a small Cedar, very 

 like the Juniper, of which there are two varieties, 

 the one found in Phoenicia, the other in Lycia. But 

 he adds, there are two kinds of large Cedar also, 

 the one that blossoms, but bears no fruit, the other 

 bearing no blossoms, but a fruit similar to that of 

 the Cypress. 



This latter would seem to have been the same 

 tree to which Virgil alludes, as he goes on to state, 

 that the wood is so durable that it has been used 

 for making images of the gods, and that there is 

 in a temple at Rome a statue of Apollo Sosianus in 

 cedar, originally brought from Seleucia. 



Now in his description of the two kinds of large 

 Cedar, Pliny evidently refers to the male and female 

 Juniper; for although it is not true that the fruit- 

 bearing trees are destitute of blossoms, yet the 

 latter, being small in their early stage, might have 

 been overlooked. 



But if so, it still remains a question, to which 

 species of the Juniper tribe Pliny could have re- 

 ferred. 



We find, according to Sibthorp, five species of 

 Juniper indigenous at the present time in Greece, 

 and of these only three, or at most four, are iden- 

 tified by that botanist with any of the plants named 

 by Dioscorides. 



c Lib. xiii. c. 11. 



