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1 in each of the inner pair;* wzzgs lateral, equal; apparently emarginate, but on 
close inspection it will be seen that one wing is attached to the seed on a higher 
plane than the other (Fig. 11). Cotyledons 2. Read description of Conifere, 
under Abies nigra, 163. 
History and Habitat.—This beautiful native tree abounds in the upper zones 
of North America, from the State of Pennsylvania northward, where it often forms 
what are commonly known as cedar-swamps. It grows upon the rocky banks of 
rivers and in low, swampy spots, blossoming from May until June, and maturing 
its fruit in autumn. The Arbor Vitze assumes a conical form with such true lines 
as to appear “clipped,” thus forming one of our most valued high-hedge trees. 
Its use in this direction is enhanced by the fact that it bears the shears well, 
and remains in full foliage, and beautiful, in any form to which it may be cut. 
The wood is light and soft, but extremely durable; it is seldom used, however, 
on account of the smallness of the trunk affording lumber of no useful size. There 
are four other species of this genus out of cultivation, viz.: the Chinese Thuja 
orventalis, the Javanese 7) huja dolabrata, the Barbarian Thuja articulata, and the 
Thuja cupressotdes of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Concerning the previous medical uses of this plant, Rafinesque covers it 
almost fully in stating:+ “Ointment of fresh leaves with bear’s fat, excellent for 
rheumatism; decoction useful in coughs, fevers, caccehyma, scurvy, gout, etc.; 
distilled water for dropsy; poultices of the cones and polypodium,t in powder with 
milk, remove the worst rheumatic pains.” Farther uses are given in later works. 
The most striking to us as homceopaths is that of an application of the tinc- 
ture to venereal warts (condylomata), which it removes in from three to four 
weeks. This is especially proven by Hahnemann, who says:§ “The following 
list of the pure symptoms|] caused by this powerful plant furnishes to the homceo- 
pathic physician the means of applying it with advantage in the treatment of cer- 
tain serious diseases for which no remedy has hitherto been found. He will see, for 
example, that the juice of the Thuja should cure specifically ‘ condylomes véné- 
riens,’ when not combined (or complicated) with other diseases; and experience 
proves that it is the only effectual means to employ against this affection.” 
Thuja was added to the U. S. Ph, at the last revision.§] 
PART USED AND PREPARATION.—The fresh branchlets, leaves, and flow- 
_ ers are chopped and pounded to a pulp and weighed. Then two-thirds by weight 
of alcohol are taken, the pulp thoroughly mixed with it, and the whole strained 
through a piece of new linen, and allowed to stand eight days, in a well-stoppered 
a ee Torrey, in his Flora of the State of New York, says, “ Seeds 2 (or by abortion 1) under each scale.” . Prof. 
Asa Gray i in his Lessons in Botany, 1874, . . - “each bearing 2 erect ovules.’’ I examined, upon this point, _ 
twenty to thirty cones, taken separately and carefully from different branchlets on each of a dozen or more trees, to cor- 
roborate the statement made as above. All cones examined answered the description I have given. 
+ Medical Flora, vol. 2, p- 268, 
1 Polypodium vulgare, the common polypody or female fern. Dr, John King, in his American Dispensaterys 
: makes this read Podophylium. It matters little. 
oe Gee Y3 Med. Pura, article Thuja. 
ee beanie : _-Y That great process, which added Sapo Viridis, while it dismissed Arsenicum. 
