t74 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 



of damp and soil that it requires. In its branching 

 it seems to show its independence of character more 

 than anything. It is said to shed its branchlets in 

 fan-shaped pieces. The situation of the green tufts 

 of leaved branchlets, upon the top of elongated twigs 

 curling upwards bared and brown, looks peculiar. 

 Hold up by hand a branchlet and it looks like some 

 miniature-shapen Stone Pine, or even a toy repre- 

 sentative of the top ramification arrangement of a 

 clean-boled Scots Pine. 



A juvenile form, called either Leptoclada or Eri- 

 coides, has raised questions as to whether it belongs 

 to the true fold of the Thyoides. 



It, like the Thyoides, is spoken of as ornamental. 

 There is one planted here some 800 ft. above sea-level, 

 and though it grows slowly it grows steadily. It 

 reminds one of a miniature, reduced four dimensions, 

 Cryptomeria Elegans, but the branchlets turn red 

 while the Cryptomeria retains its yellow-green colour. 



(Sub-division EU-THUYA, of the sub-tribe 



THUYINiE, AND OF THE TRIBE CUPRESSINEiE) 



Thuyas, or Arbor Vit^, — 



The true and only friend is He, 

 Who, like the arbor vitau tree. 

 Will bear our image on his heart. 



Sir W. Jones. 



When the foliage part of the question comes into 

 the region of discussion, it is pretty well agreed that 

 the Thuyas and the flat-leaved, small-coned Cypresses 

 (Chamaecyparis) are more or less at one. In both 

 instances the branchlet systems are in one plane. 



It is on the cone question that they come to logger- 

 heads, and the rift in the lute here is, that while the 

 scales of the cones of the Thuya are imbricated — 



