MONADELPHIA. PENTANDRIA. Erodium. 797 
Var. 2. Leaves broader and thicker. Berries longer, more oval than sphe¬ 
rical. (Stems more depressed. E.) 
J. B. i. b. 302. 1— Clus. i. 38. 2— Ger. Em. 1372. 3. 
{Dwarf Alpine Juniper. J. communis (3. Lightf. FI. Brit. y. Linn. 
J. nana. Willd. Sm. E.) On the summit of Snowdon, and the moun¬ 
tains of Westmoreland. On Kendal Fell. Ray. About 200 yards south¬ 
west of Llyn y Own, Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith. 
PENTANBRIA. 
(ERO'DIXJM. # Monogynous: the five perfect stamens alter¬ 
nating with five imperfect filaments: Fruit beaked, 
separating into five monospermous capsules, each with a 
spiral awn, bearded on the inside. E.) 
E. cicutar'ium. Flowers in umbels : leafits sessile, wing-cleft, blunt: 
petals entire : (stems procumbent. E.) 
Curt—FI. Dan. 98 6—Kniph. 11— -F. Bot. 1768—Fuchs. 204— J. B. iii. 479 
— Dod. 64. 1— Lob. Ic. 659. 1 — Ger. Em. 945. 3— Pet. 65. 3 —IL Ox. v. 
15. 9— Ger. 800. 3 and 4— Cam. Epit. 601— Riv. Irr. Pent. G. Robert 
tianum. 
(Whole plant more or less hairy, slightly viscid, scented. Stems several, 
often reddish, spreading, six or eight inches long. E.) Leafits more 
deeply cut in the summer than in the spring. Blossom varying much in 
size even on the same plant. Petals the two shorter ones sometimes 
spotted, or only one, or neither. 
The various appearances of this plant at different seasons and soils, and its 
resemblance in many respects to starved specimens of E. moschatum , have 
occasioned many errors. The spots on the petals are not to be trusted, 
neither are the incisions of the leafits. The musk odour of E. moschatum 
is the most obvious distinction. In E. cicutarium the leafits are in gene¬ 
ral more deeply and more finely cut, and shoulder up close to the mid¬ 
rib with hardly any appearance of a leaf-stalk, but in E. moschatum the 
leaf-stalks to some of the leafits are sufficiently obvious, and in the larger 
specimens the edges of the leafits are little more than serrated. Flowers 
rose red. 
Var. 2. Fine-leaved. Leafits wing-cleft, segments strap-shaped. 
Juniperinus , Thrips Juniperina , and Coccinella novem-punctata feed upon it. (Sir John 
Pringle entitles it a resinous and antiseptic vegetable, and recommends the burning the wood 
or berries of it, for the purpose of purifying the air in hospitals and other sick apartments. 
A simple watery infusion is a very useful drink for hydropic patients. In Germany the 
berries are bruised in sauce used for wild boar or pork. The Laplanders drink infusions of 
Juniper berries as we do tea. Charcoal made from the wood continues alive very long. 
The wood when burnt exhibits a fragrant odour-like incense, (properly the gummy 
exudation of the Acacia ver a, and called Thus from an Egyptian harbour, whence exported, 
but is likewise commonly prepared from the resin of the Norway spruce fir, and probably as 
good a substitute might be obtained from the Juniper. E.) 
* (From epwhos, a heron or stork $ the seed having a long beak, E.) 
