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JUNIPERUS nana.
Dwarf Juniper.
DICECIA Monadelphia.
Gen. Char. Barren flower: Scales of the catkin
sub-peltate. Perianth none. Stamens 4—8,
I-celled. Fertile flower : Scales of the catkin
few, united, at length fleshy and surrounding
the 3-seeded berry.—Hooker, Br. FI. v. 1. 438.
Spec. Char. Leaves 3 in a whorl, lanceolate, imbricated,
shorter than the oval berry; fertile flowers
oblong; stem recumbent.
Syn. J. nana. Willd. Sp. PL v .4 . 854. Sm. Eng.
FI. v. 4. 252. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. v. 3. 909.
J. communis y. Linn. Sp. PL 1470.
J. communis (3. Wahl. Lapp. 276. Hook. Brit.
FI. 439.
J. alpina. Raii Syn. 444.
F r o m Glyder Fawr mountain, North Wales, in June
1828.
A low spreading shrub, with leaves not half so long as
in J . communis, and proportionally broader, less spreading
and more crowded. Stamens usually four, attached at the
external base of each scale of the barren catkin; pistilla
3—1, ovate, gibbous at the base, slightly triangular, bluntly
keeled; style hollow, ovulum seated at the bottom of the
germen, erect, roundish oblong; berries often longer than
the adjoining leaves.