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as C. thurifera were found to have wingless seeds 

 and non- peltate cone scales, characters which 

 exclude it from Chamaecyparis and identify it as 

 a plant belonging to the Biota section of the genus 

 Thuya. Since identified as T. orientalis Mexicana. 



C. THYOIDES, LinncBus. (Synonyms : Chamae- 

 cyparis sphaeroidea, Spach ; Retinispora ericoides, 

 Gordon.) Eastern States of North America. 

 1736. — At all stages of its growth, and when in 

 the flush of health this cypress is a tree of beauty, 

 the evenly spreading, flattened, fan -shaped 

 branches, rich glaucous foliage, and dense pyram- 

 idal outline being its chief characteristics. The 

 leaves are closely appressed, and the small, glaucous 

 cones the same shape and size as peas. 



It delights in a dampish, loamy peat, and it 

 will even put on its best form in pure but partially 

 reclaimed peat bog ; indeed, by far the finest speci- 

 men I have seen was growing by the margin of a 

 mixed pine and birch wood in Ireland in the latter 

 class of soil. At Kew there are several trees of this 

 kind 25 feet high. It has not been widely planted. 



C. THYOIDES HovEii is the most remarkable 

 deviation from the species of any of the varieties. 

 The branchlets are here and there of quite a tufted 

 appearance, owing to the number and closeness 

 of the slender terminal twigs. It is of no particular 

 value. It originated in a French nursery in 1850 

 and was sent out about 1861. 



C. THYOIDES LEPTOCLADA, Masters, is of low 

 shrubby growth and strict habit, with closely 

 arranged branches which terminate in flattened 

 branchlets, with foliage of two distinct kinds — 

 scale -like and awl -shaped — and bluish grey 



