322 THUJA ; OR 



rather distant along the branchlets, pale green, and shining, the 

 marginal ones overlapping the sides, and having the appearance 

 of being in three rows on each side. Branches, rather erect, 

 long, slender, and spreading laterally, with numerous smaller 

 ones; branchlets, short, flattened, channelled along the sides, 

 distantly jointed, proliferous, short, and alternate. Cones, erect, 

 solitary on the ends of the upper branchlets, oblong, tapering 

 to the ends, one inch or more long, and half an inch wide near 

 the base, composed of two opposite pairs of scales, with a flat 

 one down the middle, and of a pale olive-brown colour. Scales, 

 fleshy, upper pair pressed together at the margins, and contain- 

 ing two seeds under each ; the lower ones overlapping, much 

 shorter and smaller, but varying very much in size, abortive, 

 and with a double margin, having the appearance as if a thin 

 scale had grown to the back of the others, the outer one having 

 a raised edge all round, and terminating in a thin blunt reflexed 

 point. Seeds, soft, somewhat angular, rounded on one side, 

 and with the elliptic wing j measure three-quarters of an inch 

 in length, and covering the inner face of the scale. Seed-leaves, 

 in twos. 



A noble evergreen tree, with an umbrella-shaped top, and 

 straight stem when old, growing from 40 to 140 feet high, and 

 from three to five feet in diameter. 



It is found plentiful along the banks of the Columbia River, 

 and at Nootka Sound, on the North-west coast of America, also 

 on the Mountains of Klamat, in California, at an elevation of 

 5,000 feet; Jeffrey found it growing along the banks of Scots 

 River, in Upper California, in sandy soil, attaining a height of 

 140 feet, and five feet in diameter. 



Timber, white and tough, but rather porous, and with but 

 little resin in it. 



It is quite hardy. 



