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and fir tribe. When the seeds are sown in autumn, immediately after being 

 gathered, they sometimes con>e up the following year. Cuttings should be 

 made in autumn, of the wood of the same year, with a small portion of the 

 preceding jear's wood attached ; and they should be planted in sand, or in a 

 very sandy" loam, in a shady border, and covered with hand-glasses. Cuttings 

 put' in in September will form callosities at their lower extremities the same 

 autumn, and should be protected by mats during severe frosts in winter: tlie 

 following autumn they will be ready to transplant. Layers may be made 

 either in autumn or spring. 



Genus IX. 



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7*1111* JA L. The Arbor Vit.e. Lin. Si/xt. Monoe'cia ^Tonadelphia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 1078. ; Reich., No. 1176. ; Schreb., Xo. 14.07. ; Touin., t. 5j8. ; Juss.,413.; 

 Gasrtn., t 91. ; Lamb. Pin., cd. 2., 2. 



Synonymes. Thuya, or Arbre de Vie, Fr. ; Lebensbaum, Ger. 



l)rrivat/oii. From tliyon, sacrifice ; in consequence of the resin of the Eastern variety being used 

 instead of incense in sacrifices. Why it was called Ailior Vitje is uncertain. Parkinson says the 

 American species was presented to F"rancis 1. under this name, and that it has been continued 

 ever since, thounh tor w hat reason he knows not. It was called the Arbor Vita; by Clusius. 

 Uoyle mentions tiiat, in the E:ist, the cypress is called the-trce of life ; and that its berries, &c., are 

 considered a cure for all diseases. 



Description, Sfc. Narrow, p} ramidal, evergreen trees, or large fastigiate 

 shrubs; natives of Asia, Africa, and North America, and (or the most part 

 hardy in British gardens. The species have been divided by Profes.sor Don 

 into the following sections : — 



1. 'YItitjcc vcrcc. Cones oblong-compressed ; scales consisting of a definite 



number (4 or G), coriaceous, smooth, with one tubercle under the 

 apex ; two exterior ones shortened, boat-shaped. Seeds compressetl, 

 winged. To this belong T. occidentnlis L., T. plicata Donn, and 

 T. chilensis D. Don. In T. occidentalis the seeds are flattened, winged 

 all round, emarginate at the apex. 



2. Biota. Cones roundish, squarrose ; scales indefinite in number, peltate, 



woody. Seeds bellying, crustaceous, without wings. To this belongs 

 T. oriental's L, 



3. Cyjyarissn. Cones roundish ; scales indefinite in number, peltate, woody. 



Seeds winged at the apex. To this belong, T. cupressdides L., T. 

 pensilis D. Don., and T. pendida D. Don. 



§ 1. Thujce vera;. 

 1 1.7". occiDENTA^Lis L. The western, or American, Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Hort. Cliff"., 449.'; Hort. Ups., 289. ; Roy Lugd., 87. ; Smith in Rees's Cyc. No. ].; 

 Kalm Itin., 3. p. 389. ; Mill. Diet., No. 1. ; Du Roi Harljk., 2. p. 4.vy. ; IJIackw., t. 210. ; Kni|>h. Cent , 

 1. No. 91. ; Wang. Amer., 7. t. 2. ; Willd. Arb., ;',83.; Baum., 504.; Sp. PI., 4. p. 508. ; Michx. Arb., 

 3. t. 29. ; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 12. ; Pursli Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 646. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. 

 p. 22R. ; Rich, sur les Conif., p. 4). 



Synonymes. ThClja Theoi)hrasti Bauh. Pin., 488. ; A'rbor Vita Clus. Hist., 1. p. 36. ; white Cedar, 

 " Amer. ; Cedre am^ricain, Cfedre blanc, .Vrbre de Vic, Fr. ; gemeintr Lebensbaum, Gcr. ; Albero de 

 Vita, Itnl. 



Engravings. Blackw., t. 210. ; Wang. .\mer., 7. t. 3. ; Michx. Arb., 3 t. 29. ; Rich. Con , t. 7. f. 1. ; 

 our fig^'. 2312. to 2314. ; and tlie plate of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Branchlets 2-edged. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, ovate- 

 rhomboid, adpressed, naked, tuberculated. Cones obovate; interior scales 

 truncate, gibbous beneath the apex. ( Willd.) A moderate-sized tree, or 

 large shrub ; a native of Canada, and in cultivation in England since 1596;. 

 flowering in May, and ripening its cones in the following autumn. 



Varieties. 



1 1.0.2 variegata Marsh., p. 243. ; T. o. foliis varicgatis Lodd. Cat., 183G ; 

 has the leaves variegated. There is a tree in the Horticultural 



