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have not yet sufficiently observed our plant, and for a time intend to 

 keep it under the above name. 



Habitat. — Spain and other parts of S. Europe, Sicily, Roumelia, 

 Greece. It seems to be hardy. 



J. sphserica, LindL in Paxt. Flow. Gard. i. 58, f. 35. J. 



Fortunei, Van Houtte. J. chinensis Smithii, Loud, ex Gord. Pin. 

 J. Sahina sphxrica, A. S. Oersted, Frilands-Trsevssxten i Danmark, 

 1864, i. 5. 



Habitat. — North China. 



Introduced by Fortune in 1846. 



Hardy. 



J. thurifera, L. Sp. PI. 1471. J. hispanica, Lamb. Diet. 

 Encycl. 626. J. fostida thurifera, Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xvi. 

 298. J. sabinoides, Endl. Conif. 24 (not Gris.). J. cinerea, Carr. 

 Tr. Gen. Conif. 35. 



Habitat. — Spain, on the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia ; Portugal, 

 near Cape St. Vincent ; Algiers, near Medina (Prodr. xvi. 487). 



Introduced into England in 1752 by Miller. 



Seems to be hardy. 



J. virginiana, L. Sp. PI. 1471. J. foetida virginiana, Spach, 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xvi. 297, and Hist. Veg. Phan. xi. 318. J. arbo- 

 rescens, McEnch. Meth. 699. J. caroliniana, Dur. Harbk. (Pott.)i. 497. 

 Sabina virginiana, Ant. Cupress. Gatt. tab. 83, 84. 



Habitat. — Southern New Brunswick to the northern shores of 

 Georgian Bay, Northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota ; south 

 to Cape Malabar and Tampa Bay, Florida, and the valley of the 

 Colorado Piver, Texas ; west to Eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and the 

 Indian Territory to about the one-hundredth jDarallel of west longi- 

 tude ; in the Pacific region, Pocky Mountains of Colorado to 

 Vancouver's Island, British Columbia ; not extending to Western 

 Texas, California, or Oregon ; in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona rare and 

 local. 



The most widely distributed of North American Conifers ; a 

 tree 80-100 feet in height, with a trunk 2-4i feet in diameter, or 

 toward its northern and western limits much smaller, often reduced 

 to a low shrub ; dry, gravelly ridges and limestone hills, or in 

 the Gulf States, especially near the coast, in deep swamps ; in 

 Northern Montana, borders of streams and lakes ; common, and 

 reaching its greatest development, in the valley of the Red River, 

 Texas. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, very close and straight- 

 grained, compact, easily worked, very durable in contact with the 

 soil ; odorous ; bands of small summer cells rather broad, conspicuous ; 

 medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; colour dull red, the thin 

 sapwood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0*4926 ; ash, 0*13 ; largely 



