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J U N I P E R U S. 



The J U N I P E R TREE. 

 Clafs 2 2. Order 12. Dioecia Monodelphia. 



T^HE Flowers are Male and Female on different plants. 

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The Calyx is a conical katkin, confining of a common rachis or 

 firing, to which three flowers are placed in triple oppofition, 

 the katkin terminating with the tenth : each flower has for 

 its bafe a Scale which is broad, fhort, incumbent and affixed 

 to the column by a little footflalk. 



The Corolla none. 



The Filaments (in the terminal floret) are three, awl-fhaped, 

 and joined beneath in one body; (in the lateral florets fcarce 

 manifeft.) The Anthem are three, diftinfl in the terminal 

 floret, but in the lateral joined to the fcales 

 The Female, 



The Empalement is three parted, very fmall, adjoining to the 

 germen, and permanent. 



The Corolla has three petals, permanent, rigid and acute. 



The Germen is beneath. The Styles are three, fimple. The 

 Stigmas are fimple. 



The Seed'vejjel is a berry, flefliy, roundifh, the under part mark- 

 ed with three obfolete oppofite tubercles, grown from the 

 calyx, the top umbilicated with three fmall teeth (formerly 

 petals.) 



The Seeds arc three, fmall, oblong, and bony, convex on one 

 fide, and angled on the other. 



This tree often grows to the height of fifteen or 

 twenty feet, fending off many diverging branches, 

 covered with leaves fomething like the Juniper, but 

 much fmaller, fhorter, and iyi'^g clofer to the 

 branches. The berries are fmaller than thofe of the 



The Species, with us^ are^ 



I. Juniper us virginiana. Red Cedar-Tree. 



