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the carpels; carpel bearing one to many erect 

 ovules near its base; the upper side of the car- 

 pel outgrowing the lower side in ripening, and 

 displacing the original apex so that in fruit it 

 appears as a boss upon the back of the cone- 

 scale. Fruit a woody cone, or drupaceous or 

 berry-like. 



Evergreen trees and shrubs of wide geograph- 

 ical distribution. The following genera oc- 

 cur in Vancouver Island and the adjacent re- 



gions. 



Cones woody, elliptical, scales overlapping, 



Thuja 

 Cones woody, spherical, scales peltate 



Cii press us 

 Cones fleshy and drupaceous or (in all 

 American species) berry-like. 



Juniperiis 

 Thuja. Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1002. 1753. 

 Aromatic trees with distichous branchlets, 

 flattened twigs, and imbricated, appressed di- 

 morphic, scale-like leaves, the lateral leaves of 

 the twigs conduplicate, carinate, overlapping 

 the flat leaves of the dorsal and ventral ranks, 



