Perhaps not essentially distinct from J . communis; but in
that species we find the ovulum oblate, and the fertile flowers
oval or roundish.
It is difficult to refer the fertile flowers of Juniperus to
those which are termed amentaceous: to us they appear to
be solitary, consisting of four series of ovate-pointed scales
(calyx ?), inclosing a bell-shaped corolla, deeply divided
into three roundish, acute, or toothed segments, which at
length become enlarged and coherent at their reflexed
summits, forming the fleshy berry, with the calyx below,
in general, remaining unaltered.—W. W.
