Definition of "Juniperites"

After an examination of all the specimens, I am still in doubt as to the greater number of them; for, either from their being too incomplete, or from not having made a sufficient number of comparisons, I am unable to arrive at very precise results. They appear to me to belong to eleven species. / 1. Juniperites subulata. The form and the insertion of the leaves appear to me to indicate a Juniperus, allied to, though distinct from, that found in the lignite formations of Bohemia, which I have named in my "Prodromus" Juniperites acutifolia. I possess specimens from the freshwater formation of Armissau near Narbonne, apparently of the same species.

1835, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, quoting Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, “XVIII.—A Sketch of the Structure of the Eastern Alps; with Sections through the Newer Formations on the Northern Flanks of the Chain, and through the Tertiary Deposits of Styria, &c. &c. [...] With Supplementary Observations, Sections, and a Map”, in Transactions of the Geological Society of London (2nd Series), volume III (in English), London: Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Sold at the apartments of the Geological Society, Somerset House, page 373

Juniperites, ju-ne-per-i′tis, s[ubstantive]. A genus of fossil plants, in which the branches are ranged irregularly; leaves short, obtuse, inserted by a broad base, opposite, decussate, and arranged in four rows.]

[1849, John Craig, “Juniperites”, in A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Art, Science, and Literature, volumes II (Jac–Zyt) (in English), London: Published (for the proprietors,) by Henry George Collins, 22 Paternoster Row, page 15

When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong.

1851, G. F. Richardson, Thomas Wright, “Fossil Botany”, in An Introduction to Geology, and Its Associate Sciences, Mineralogy, Fossil Biology, and Palæontology, new, rev. and considerably enl. edition (in English), London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, page 171

Juniperítes (Lat. juniperus, the juniper tree).—The generic term for such fossil coniferæ as are evidently allied to the juniper. Several species occur in tertiary lignites, and are known by their short, obtuse, broad-based leaves, arranged in four opposite rows round irregularly-forking branches.]

[1859, David Page, “General Terms and Technicalities”, in Handbook of Geological Terms and Geology (in English), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 219

The Eocene epoch in general is characterized by the predominance of Algæ and marine Naiadaceæ, such as Caulinites and Zosterites; by numerous Coniferæ, the greater part resembling existing genera among the Cupressineæ, and appearing in the form of Juniperites, Thuites, Cupressites, Callitrites, Frenelites, and Solenostrobus; […]

1862, John Hutton Balfour, “Reign of Angiosperms”, in Outlines of Botany: Designed for Schools and Colleges, 2nd edition (in English), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, page 669

JUNIPERITES Adolphe[-Théodore] Brongniart, 1828. Juniperites alienus (Sternberg) Adolphe Brongniart, 1828b, p. 108.

1970, Henry N[athaniel] Andrews, Jr., “Generic Index of Fossil Plants”, in Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820–1965: Based on the Compendium Index of Paleobotany of the U.S. Geological Survey (Geological Survey Bulletin; 1300) (in English), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 110