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JDicecia. 
Merc. Annua , Annual Dog’s Mercury ; with branch- 
ed stem, smooth leaves, flowers in racemes, and fibrous 
root. Frequent in waste places near towns. 
Monadelphia. 
Juniperus. Gen. char. — ( 1 ) Cal. scales of the 
catkin; cor. none ; stamens three. (2) Cal. scales of 
the catkin few, become at last fleshy, and unite into a 
three- seeded berry. 
Jun. Communis, Common Juniper ; with leaves ter- 
mate, spreading, needle-shaped, longer than the berry. 
Common in heaths and elevated places, and well known 
by the sweetish aromatic berries which it produces. 
Taxtjs. Gen. char. — (1) Cal. none ; cor. none ; 
stamens numerous ; anthers peltate, eight-cleft. (2) Cal. 
pitcher-shaped, entire ; style none ; seed one, placed 
on the berried calyx. 
Tax. Baccata, Yew Tree ; with approximatingleaves i 
grows in mountainous woods, and moist loamy soils. 
The remains of an old wood of yew trees in Upper 
Lome, in the Western Highlands of Scotland, were 
observed by Mr Lightfoot ; and the trunk of a decayed 
yew tree in Fortingal church-yard is mentioned by Mr 
Pennant, in his tour in Scotland, as 56-J feet in circum- 
ference. 
