Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
£ 3 luniperus Alfim minor, 
Small T — : r ‘ l " A, ~ 
Li B.3. 
2 lumper us maxima. 
The great Iunipcrtrce. 
tree hath a thinbark or rinde, which in hot re- , 
gions will chop and rend it felfinto many cra- 
nies or pieces : out of which rifts iffueth a cer- 
tainegum or liqueur much like vnto Frankin- 
cenfe : the leaues are very fmall, narrow, and 
hard, and fomwhat prickly, growing eucr green 
along the branches, thickc together : amongft 
which come forth round and fmall berries, 
greeneat the firft, bur afterward blacke decli- 
ning ro blewnefle,of a good fauor,and fweet in 
tafte, which do wax fomwhat bitter after they 
be dry and withered. 
2 The great luniper tree comes new and 
then to the height of the Cypres tree, with a 
greater and harder !eafe,and alfowitha fruit 
as big as Oliue berries, as Bellornus writeth,of 
an exceeding faire blew colour, and of an excel- 
lent fweet fauor. 
£ 3 This exceeds not the height of a cu- 
bit, but growes low, and as it were craeps vpon 
the ground, and confifls of furdry thicker and 
fhorterbranches than the common kind, tough 
alfo,writhen, and hard to breaker leaues al- 
waies growing at equal! diflances , as in the 
common, but yet broader, fhorter, and thicker, 
neither lelfe pricking than they , of a w'hitifh 
greene colour on the infide,and green without, 
mcompaffe the tender branches. Clufius, who 
giues vs this figure and biflorie,obfcrued r ot 
the floure,btrt the fruit is like rhatof theordi- 
narie, 
