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BARBADOES CEDAR. 
Rocky Mountains, and calls it a lofty elegant tree ; but we 
never saw it near any stream, but on the dry declivities of 
mountains, and as a tree it is neither tall nor elegant, but 
sufficiently singular and interesting. The plant mentioned 
by Pallas was observed in the Crimea. It grew erect like 
a Cypress, with the trunk often a foot in diameter. Com- 
paring it with the Savin, ( J . sabina,) he says, the leaves are 
more slender and distant, acute, and rather prominently im- 
bricate like the leaves of the Tamarisc. The opposite 
applies to our plant, the leaves are thicker, shorter, and 
more closely imbricated, so as not to be visible in profile. 
Our plant appears to be nearly allied, if not identic with 
the J. occidentalis of Hooker, but the leaves are certainly 
without any appearance of glands, and the branchlets are 
angular. Douglas’s plant was found on the higher parts of 
the Columbia and at the base of the Rocky Mountains, 
where it attained a height of 60 to 80 feet, and a diameter 
of from 2 to 3 feet, dimensions also greatly at variance 
with the present species. 
Plate CX. 
A branch of the natural size, with fruit. 
Barbadoes Cedar, ( Juniperus barbadensis .) With the 
leaves imbricated in 4 rows, the younger ones ovate, and 
the older acute. This species of Willdenow, said by 
Michaux and Pursh to inhabit the coast of Florida and the 
Bahama islands, appears to be merely a variety of J. vir- 
qiniana, our common species. If any thing, the leaves are 
somewhat more closely imbricated, and, apparently, none 
of them spreading. The same variety is probably more or 
less spread over the whole of the United States, as I have 
