l8o CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 



conveys a high compliment, since the Greek word 

 implies something worth living for. 



It is more often than anything little more than a 

 twenty-foot high, many-stemmed shrub, though two 

 at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, planted by the 

 late J. H. Arkwright, have risen to twice that height. 



Its branches, except perhaps the lower ones, rise 

 vertically, and the branchlets also, like some varieties 

 of the C. Lawsoniana — to wit, the Allumi and Erecta 

 Viridis — also assume this vertical habit. 



Like the C. Lawsoniana and the Occidentalis it 

 breaks away in many (over twenty) polymorphous 

 strains — coloured, dwarf, fastigiate, and pendulous 

 with whip-cord branchlets. Juvenile and coloured 

 forms are fully dealt with in detail by our more 

 luminous and voluminous authorities. 



The leaves are described as without white streaks 

 on the under-surface by Elwes and Henry, but are 

 by Bean notified as with white streaks. The one we 

 have before us here shows white stomata scattered 

 in the middle of the leaf on the under-side. They 

 are further described as in decussate pairs, but do not 

 show to the tyro much difference from the dorso- 

 ventral and lateral leaf arrangement. Down the 

 middle of the leaf there runs a depression, or groove, 

 which is explained as of glandular cause and effect. 

 The lateral leaves curve away from the centre. The 

 leaves are triangular in shape, with a little sharp 

 point at their ends. The cones are always erect and 

 not deflexed ultimately, as in other Thuyas. They 

 are of a soft blue substance at first, and showing six 

 or seven horn-like protuberances. As age advances 

 they become harder and more ligneous, and eventually 

 gape apart as do most of the Thuyas. 



Thujopsis Dolabrata, or Japanese Thuya. — 

 The T. Dolabrata, by its greater breadth and boldness 



