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are facts that can be adduced in support of that hypothesis,"* for 

 example the male trees (at least up to 25 or 30 years) may be always 

 recognised by their primary branches spreading horizontally and by the 

 elongated branchlets clothed with scale-like leaves which in winter have 

 a russet-brown tint quite peculiar to this form. The female trees have 

 also spreading branches but with more lax ramification than the males ; 

 the foliage is at first dimorphic but the acicular leaves disappear in time 

 and the scale-like foliage is of a decided green tint, rarely glaucous, 

 throughout the year. Monoecious trees are fairly intermediate, generally 

 of columnar or sub-fastigiate habit up to 25 30 years, with dimorphic 

 foliage while the trees are relatively young ; in some instances the fruit 

 is borne on a single branch or on a very few branches, and in otlu-rs 

 the staminate flowers are restricted to one or to a very few branches, 

 whilst between these extremes every possible gradation occurs, and every 

 such variation is usually accompanied by a greater or less variation in 

 habit. 



The wood of the Red Cedar is one of the most valuable of the forest 

 products of North America. Its use in the manufacture of " cedar 

 pencils " is well known ; its resistance to decay by water is so great that 

 no better wood can be found for fencing-posts and railway ties, door- 

 sills and other purposes in which wood-work is in contact with the soil. 

 Moths flee from its pungent odour, and a chest or closet lined with this, 

 wood affords an efficient protection against their inroads. From the 

 waste of pencil factories, a kind of paper is manufactured that has been 

 found useful for underlaying carpets and for wrapping wools, furs and 

 other articles liable to be injured by moths. 



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Hooker fil in Bot. Mag. sub. t. 4616 (1851). Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 463 (1868) 

 Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. III. 425 (1881). Eicbler in Engler and Prantl, Nat. PfL 

 Fam. 95 (1887). Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXX. 17 (1893) ; and including Diselma, 

 Hooker til, Fl. Tasnian. I. 353, t. 98. 



A genus of evergreen trees or shrubs, including two species which 

 have their homes in two regions remote from each other one, the type^ 

 in the extreme south of South America and the other in the island of 

 Tasmania. From a scientific standpoint, the genus is a highly 

 interesting one, both in respect of the geographical position of the 

 species and the structure of the fruit by which it is chiefly 

 distinguished from the other Cupressinefe. 



The essential characters are : 



Flowers dioecious. Staminate flowers small, solitary and terminal 

 Anthers four eight, shortly stipitate with a peltate, broadly ovate or 

 sub-orbicular connective bearing two four anther cells. 



* II y a des individus exclusivement males, d'autres exclusivement fenielles, et d'autres 

 entiii qui, a des degres ditferents, portent les deux sexes. Ce qui est encore a remarquer, 

 c'est que ces caracteres agissent sur le fades et qu'elles donnent souvent aux plantes un 

 aspect particulier. Cette particularite, qui probablement s'applique a d'autres especes de 

 Juniperus, pourrait, peut-etre, expliquer la multiplicity qu'on a faite d'especes qui, pour 

 beaucoup, ne sont probablement que des formes d'un seul type. Traite General des Coniferes,. 

 ed. II. p. 47. 



