58 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Juniperus communis L., var. megistocarpa IVrnald & St. 
John, n. var., ./. connnuncm, var. monianani rainis prostratis foliis 
latis brevibus incurvantibus similans sed diftert fructuljus inajor- 
ibus, 9-13 mm. diametro; seminibus majoribu.s, 5-7 mm. longis. 
Resembling J. communis L., var. monlana Ait. in its prostrate 
branches and short l)road incurved leaves, but differing from it by 
its larger fruit, 9-13 mm. in diameter, and by its larger seeds, 5-7 nmi. 
long. 
Newfoundland: serpentine and magnesian limestone barrens, 
northeastern base and slopes of Blomidon (" Blow-me-down") 
Mountains, Bay of Islands, August 21, 1910, M. L. Fcrnald and A'. 
M. Wiegand, no. 2,422 (H). 
Quebec, Magdalen Isl.\nds: sand ridges back of the Narrows, 
Alright Island, August 21, 1912, M. L. Fernald, Bayard Long, and 
Harold St. John, no. 6,729 (type in Gray Herb.); sand hills between 
East Cape and East Point, Coffin Island, M. L. Fernald, Bayard 
Long, and Harold St. John, no. 6,728 (H) ; sand dunes, Brion Island, 
Aug. 6, 1914, Harold St. John, no. 2,040 (H). 
Nova Scotia: Empetrum heaths near Gourdeau park. Sable 
Island, Aug. 23, 1913, Harold St. John, no. 1,114 (H); sprawling on 
sand dunes, Empetrum heaths, Whalepcst, Sable Island, Aug. 30, 
1913, Harold St. John, no. 1,115 (H). 
Common on Sable Island on the dry slopes of the fixed dunes. 
This variety is probably the only one on the Island. In 1753 Andrew 
Le Mercier (L) described the Island as looking " all green in winter 
with the Juniper bushes." 
In 1766 and 1767, J. F. IV. Des Barres observed "juniper &c., in 
their season" (Atlantic Neptune, i. 68, 1777). 
"A little ground juniper," is referred to by J. B. Gilpin (G. p. 18); 
"On y trouve, en fait de fruits, les baies du genevrier rampant" 
(T. p. 29). 
Fr. — August and September. 
[J. COMMUNIS L., var. depressa Pursh. Collected by J. Macoun 
and H. T. Giissoiv, and probably to be referred to the preceding 
variety.] 
[J. NANA Willd. The plant mentioned by Jonathan Dicight, Jr., 
(D. pp. 9 and 12) is probably J. co)nvmnis, var. megistocarpa.] 
J. horizontalis Moench. Dry sheltered slopes of the more perma- 
nent dunes. J. Macoun writes (M. p. 217A), "On one occasion I saw 
roots protruding from under a sand-hill over thirty feet high, and 
on digging them out found that they represented part of the remains 
