While I was on the ridge at Hille, I observed the junipers and saw that, at the ends of the branches, there were buds consisting of three leaves longer and 3 to 4 times bigger than the other leaves. These larger and thicker leaves were closed like sheaths but with the ends open, and inside them there were 3 other smaller leaves the same size as the ordinary ones and yellowish in colour. These were also closed up and contained either a little dark-yellow worm or a small whitish pupa.3