Volume 8 — PLATE DXXXIV.

JUNIPERUS DAURICA.

Daurian Juniper.

CLASS XXII. ORDER XIII.

DIŒCIA MONADELPHIA. Chives and Pointals on different Plants. Monadelphous.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

* Masculi flores.

Amentum ovatum. Calyx squamosus. Corolla nulla. Stamina 3.

* Fœminei flores.

Calyx 3-partitus. Petala 3. Bacca 3-sperma, tubulata, tuberculata. Calyx inæqualis.

* Male flowers.

Catkin egg-shaped. Empalement squamous. Blossom none. Chives 3.

* Female flowers.

Empalement 3-parted. Petals 3. Shaft 3. Berry 3-seeded, hollowed, and a little swelled. Cup unequal.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Juniperus foliis oppositis, acutis, imbricatis, decurrentibus, passim patulis, subulatis.

Pallas’s Flora Rossica, vol. 2. p. 13. tab. 55.

Juniper with opposite leaves, acute, imbricated, and decurrent, here and there spreading, and awl-shaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A female flower magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointals, magnified. 3. A berry. 4. The same cut in two, with a seed detached.

The plant here figured is from the arboretum of the Marquis of Blandford at White Knights, where we first noticed it in 1806, growing in the greatest perfection, and bearing abundance of fruit, which it still continues to do annually; and being a finer species than any we before possessed, is an interesting addition to our collections of hardy evergreens. It agrees perfectly with the figure and description in the Flora Rossica, and also with the original specimen in the Pallasian Herbarium (now in the possession of A. B. Lambert, esq.)

The plant from which our figure was taken is above twelve feet high, and wide in proportion. The male plant we have not seen. Gmelin informs us (in his History of the Plants of Siberia) that in the town of Janisca the Cossacks burn the twigs of this plant to fumigate those who are afflicted with obscure diseases, or those which they superstitiously suppose to be excited by devils, of whose agency they are extremely credulous, and whom they believe to be pacified with smoke and hideous noises, as being congenial to their own nature.