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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM

PART III.

the varieties Is. 6 d. each; at Bollwyller, the varieties, 2 francs each. At NewYork, plants of the Swedish juniper, which requires protection there duringwinter, are 50 cents each.

» 2. •/. Oxy'cedrus L. The Sharp Cedar, or brown-berried, Juniper.

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1470. ; Willd. Sp., 4. p. 854.; Lam. Diet., 2. p. 625.; Desf. FI. Atl., 2p. 270.; Lois. FI. Gall., p. 684. ; N. Du Ham., 6 p. 47.

Synom/mes. J. mStjor Cam. Epit., 54.; J. m. monspeli£nsium Lob. Ic., 2. p. 223.; J. phoenicea, &c.,"J fcauh. Hist , 1. p. 277-; J■ major, &c., C. Bauh., p.489., Tourn. Inst., 589., Du Ham. Arb.,p, 322. t. 128., Rail Hist., 1413.; Cfedrus phoem'cea Matth. Falgr., 127. ; Ox^cedrus Cites. Hist.,

E . 39.; 0. phoenfeea Dod. Pempt, p.853.; the prickly Cedar; le Cade, Fr .; Spanische Wach-older, Ger.

Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 2. t. 128.; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 15. f. 2.; our fig. 2352. to our usual scale;and fig. 2351. of the natural size.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, spreading, mucronate, shorter than theberries. ( Willd .) An evergreen shruh, native of Spain, Portugal, and thesouth of France. Introduced before 1739 ; flowering in May and June.

Description, $c. A shrub, closely allied to communis,from 10 ft.to 12 ft.high, and feathered from the ground. The branches are small and taper, with-

out angles. Berries verylarge, of a brownish red,and marked with two

mm

white lines. This species iSaJ

is said to form ahandsomeshrub when allowed suffi-cient space; and to berather more tender than J.communis. In France, anessential oil is distilledfrom its wood, called huilede cade. which is usedin veterinary medicine.

There are small plants in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, at Kew, and at

a few other places j but we have never been able to see any above 1 ft. inheight.

» 3. J. macroca'rpa Smith. The large-fruited Juniper.

Identification. Smith in FI. Greec. Prod., 2. p. 263.; ? Tenore Syll. FI. Neapol.

oynonyme. o. major, Dacca caruiea, i own. inst., oey. . . .

Engravings. Lob. Icon., 2. p. 223. f. 1.; Tourn. Inst., 589. f.; and our fig. 2353. of the natural size,

7igruvtng$. iiuti, luuii., z. p. zzo. i. i.;

copied from the figure of L’Obel.

Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ternate, spreading, mucronate, sharply keeled,one-nerved. Berries elliptical, longer than the leaf. ( Smith FI. Gr., 2.p.267.) A shrub, a native of Greece, with leaves like those of J. Ox-^cedrus, but the berries are twice as large, elliptic or obovate, and

black covered with a violet bloom. There is a specimen in Sibthorp’sherbarium, in the Linnaean Society. {Du Ham.) Berries have beensent to us by the Honourable W. Fox Strangways, under the name

of J. macrocarpa, (but which were of a brownish red, and only differ. yY \-

ing from those of J. Ox^cedrus in size,) accompanied by the following J

remarks : — “Juniperus macrocarpa is described in Tenore’s Syllog. FI. // sy

Neapol., ,1832, 8vo. It is common along the sea-shore, particularly

near Baia, Cuma, and Licola; and is a low thick bush, having neither ’a

the cedar-like spread of the common juniper, nor the upright stature

or J. Oxycedrus. J. Ox^cedrus appears to he intermediate between

j. communis and J. macrocarpa; having the small fruit of the former, ^

and the spreading prickly leaves, wide apart, of the latter. It is not

common in Italy, but is abundant in Istria and Dalmatia, where it

bears the Fiscum Ox^cedri.— JV. Fox Strangways. January 'HO. 1838.”

Professor Don doubts much whether Tenore’s J. macrocarpa be anything more than a variety of J. Ox^cedrus. As Mr. Strangways has 4- Hgiven seeds of Tenore’s plant to the Horticultural Society, and to other ^

collections, it will be known in a few years what it is. 2 353

m

n. 4. ./. drupa'cea Lab., N. Du Ham. The drupaceous, or large-fruited,

Juniper.

Identification. Labillard. Icon. Plant. Syr. Dec., 2. p. 14.; Mart. Mill., No. 11.; Desfont. Hist, desArbres et Arbriss., 2. p. 558.