. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. reaches the stature of a tree. It isfound from Connecticut to Florida, and extendswest to Michigan, Kansas, and Texas. BLUE BLUE COMMON JUNIPER Junlperus communis Pine Family Fruit. — The berrylike cones do not developuntil the second year, and often remain on thebranches some time after ripening. When fullyripe, in the fall of the second year, the fruitsare dark blue with a bloom. They are usuallythree-seeded. The flesh of the berry is dry andmealy. The seeds are slow in germinating, re-quiring two yea
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. reaches the stature of a tree. It isfound from Connecticut to Florida, and extendswest to Michigan, Kansas, and Texas. BLUE BLUE COMMON JUNIPER Junlperus communis Pine Family Fruit. — The berrylike cones do not developuntil the second year, and often remain on thebranches some time after ripening. When fullyripe, in the fall of the second year, the fruitsare dark blue with a bloom. They are usuallythree-seeded. The flesh of the berry is dry andmealy. The seeds are slow in germinating, re-quiring two years. The fruit develops fromthree fleshy scales, united from their bases nearlyto the tips, and inclosing three ovules. Whenripe, the tips of the scales are still visible, withlines from each joiniug in a common berry is nearly stemless and axillary. Itis much used in making gin, an infusion of theberries being added to distilled grain. Leaves. — The short, stemless, sharp-pointedleaves are arranged in whorls of three. Theyare bright green and shining on the lower sur- 249. Low Juniper (Juniperus nana)250 BLUE 251 face, and channeled and whitened on the upperone. The whitened appearance of the upper sur-face is due to a thin layer of wax, which coversand protects, from dew and rain, the stomata,or openings, of the air passages. Floivers. — The staminate and pistillate flow-ers grow in aments on separate plants. April,May. Jimiperus communis is an erect shrub or smalltree, common to the northern portions of Europe,Asia, and America. In the latter continent itextends as far south as New Jersey, Pennsyl-vania, Nebraska, Michigan, and along the Rock-ies to New Mexico. Juniperus nana (Jimiperus communis, var. al-pina of Gray) is distinguished from the pre-ceding by a growth in low circular spread over waste rocky hillsides andare eradicated with difficulty. The leaves aresomewhat stouter and less spreading than thoseof Juniperus communis. 252 HOW TO ENO
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