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Synonymes. Hdbhel fructus Clus. Hist. Ic.,37.; J. m&jor Belton Obs 2. p. 162.

Engravings. Clus. Icon.; Labillard. Icon.; ourfig. 235?. reduced to our usual scale from thefigure of La Billardi£re ; and figs. 2353. and2356. of the natural size, also from the sameauthority. Fig. 2355. shows the scales of thefruit much oponerthan is usual in Juniperus;it is, however, a correct copy of the original.

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2356

Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, spreading, acute, three times shorter than the fruit. Nut 5-celled.

(Labillard .) A shrub, a native of Syria. Introduced in 1820; but we have not seen the plant.

Description, 8fC. Stem erect, branched. Branchesspreading; branchlets 3-sided. Leaves lanceolate,sessile, somewhat glaucous, with a double line above.

Fruit testaceous, often three times as long as theleaves ; large, roundish, angular, dark blue, with aglaucous bloom, and marked with six or nine retusetubercles. Nut subovate, large, with three smallcells; very hard, hollowed above with three lines;kernel solitary, oblong, fixed by a pellicle to thebottom of the cell. A native of Mount Casius, andprobably the same with the greater junipers observedby Bellonius on Mount Taurus, which he describes asrising to the height of a cypress, and bearing a sweetfruit, the size and shape of an olive, which is eaten bythe inhabitants of the mountains. [Mart. Mill.) Thisspecies was seen by Desfontaines in Paris, in the nursery of M. Cels. Clusius received it from theEast, under the name of Hdbhel.

1 5. J. virginia'na L. The Virginian Juniper, or Red Cedar,

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1471.; WilldL Sp. PI., 4. p.853.; Michx. Arb. For., 3. p. 42.; NorthAmer. Syl., 3. p. 222.; Mart. Mill., No. 6.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 415.

Synonymes. J. major americ&na Raii Hist., 1413.; J. maxima, &c., Sloan , Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836,Bon Jard., ed. 1837 , Laws. Man., p. 390.

Engravings. Michx. Arb. For., 3. t. 5.; North Amer. Syl., 3.1.155.; omfig. 2357.; and the platesof this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char. Leaves in threes, the three growing together at the base;young ones imbricated, old ones spreading. ( Willd.) An evergreen tree;a native of North America. Introduced before 1664; flowering in May,and ripening its fruit in October.

Varieties.

4 J. ». 2 humilis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.—The only plant that we have seenis at Messrs. Loddiges’s, and it is there so very small and sickly,that it is difficult to form any opinion respecting it.

J J. v. 3 carolintdna ; J. carolini&na Du Rot, Mill. Diet., No. 2 —Miller says that the lowerleaves of this kind are like those of the Swedish juniper ; but that the upper leaves arelike those of the cypress; while in the Virginian cedar all the leaves are like those of thejuniper. The name is in Messrs. Loddiges’s catalogue for 1837; but, as the plant intheir collection is dead, we cap say nothing as to the difference between it and the species.

Other Varieties. The red cedar varies exceedingly from seed. At WhiteKnights, where there are some hundreds of trees, some are low and spread*