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CONTE Rat: 
male catkins, though not very plentifully; but IN aoe 
have not yet seen any sign of cones on any of the 
three. 
CUPRESSINE&. 
THUIA PENDULA. 
*THUIA FILIFORMIS (Kew gardens). 
WMambert oF mus sed; 2.7 Vv. 2.(ts 67 (2): 
Loudon, v. 4. 2461. 
A thriving plant in the arboretum, planted by rnuia 
my father. Forms a dense bush, quite different in a 
habit from either the American or Chinese Thuza. 
Appears quite hardy, not having suffered 
materially from the winter of 1860-61. This year, 
1869, it bears some cones which I have never seen 
before. 
This is a very peculiar and anomalous plant, quite 
different in habit from any other of the cupressee 
that I know, and peculiarly remarkable for its con- 
fused and irregular ramification, strikingly contrast- 
ed with that of the other Thuzas, the ramification 
instead of being distichous or pinnated, is fasciculate 
and very irregularly so; the shoots of each year 
springing out, many together of various lengths 
and thickness, in a sort of confused cluster, from 
near the end of the preceding year’s growth. The 
branches are long, slender, and lax, but in general 
net distinctly pendulous. The leaves also 
are unlike those of the other Thuzas; they are 
* I saw it labelled with this name at Kew. 
