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The Savin, thongh generally seen in gardens as a low spreading 

 shrub, has sometimes an upright trunk, clothed in a reddish-brown 

 bark, and rising to the height of 10 or 12 feet, or even higher. 

 Its branches are nearly straight, very much ramified, and form, with 

 the trunk, a regular pyramid. Its young branches are entirely covered 

 with imbricated leaves, which have a very strong and disagreeable 

 odour, and a very bitter taste. The berries are smaller than those of 

 the common Juniper, but of the same colour, and a little compressed. 

 The leaves of the Savin are used in medicine as a diuretic ; but if 

 taken in large quantities during pregnancy, as well in the human 

 species as in domestic animals, will produce abortion. When dried 

 and pulverised, they are used for cleansing foul ulcers. The upright 

 Savin was formerly much used in England, and still is in some parts 

 of France in topiary work, as it bears the shears very well. In France 

 it is employed in the same manner as the common Juniper, to form 

 screens {rideaux de verdure) and to cover walls which it is wished to 

 conceal. The Baschkirs, a people of Hussia between the Volga and 

 the Oural, use fumigations of Savin to cure the diseases of children ; 

 they also believe it to have a great effect against witches, for which 

 purpose they hang branches of it at the doors of their houses. The 

 ancient Germans, it is said, gave Savin to their chargers to give them 

 ardour. Hardy in Denmark. 



J. S. prostrata, Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 1086. J. prostrata, 

 Person. J. repens, Nutt. Gen. Amer. ii. 245. J. cdpina, Lodd. Cat. 

 1836. J. Sahma tamariscifolia, hort. aliq. non Ait. J. Sabma 

 prostrata^ Knight, Syn. Conif. 12. /. hudsonica, Forb. Pinet. Wob. 

 208. J. Sahina, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 246. J. horizontalis, 

 Moench. Meth. 699. J. Sahinaalpma, Loud. Arbor, iv. 2499, f. 2361, 

 2362. J. Sabina midticaulis, Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xvi. 

 295. J. prostrata, Pers. Syn. ii. 632 ; Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, 

 xvi. 293, and Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 314 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 18 ; 

 Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 200; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 

 310, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 26 ; Gord. Pinet. 106. J. (?) racemosa, 

 Risso. Hist. Nat. Eur. Mer. ii. 459. J. (?) csesia, Carr. ed. 2, 53. 

 J. repanda. 8ahina prostrata. Ant. Cupress. Gatt. 76, 82. 



Habitat. — In North America, on sandy coasts, near the Great 

 Lakes and in the West, on the Hocky Mountains. It is hardy. 



J. S. tamariscifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 414. Sabina, 

 folio tamarisci, Bauh. Pinet. 487. J. Sabina /3, Linn. Spec. 1472. 

 J. Sabina, Mill. Diet. 10. J. fontida |8 tamariscifolia, Spach, Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xvi. 295 (excl. syn. Pall.). Sabina tamariscifolia, 

 A. S. Oersted, Frilands-Trsevfexten i Danmark, 1864, i. 6. 



J. sabinoides, Gris. Spicileg. Fl. Rumel. ii. 352. J. sabina mas, 

 hort. 



Some authors call this plant Juniperus Sabina tamariscifolia, I 



