402 THUJA. 



No. 2. Thuja gigantea, Nuttall, the Gigantic Arbor Vitse. 



Syn. Thuja plicate, Lambert, not Bonn. 

 Lobii, Veltch. 



Lobbiana. Hort. 



Douglasii, Nuttall. 

 Menziesii, Douglas. 



Leaves in alternate opposite pairs, closely imbricated, and 

 without any gland on the back ; those on the branches are more 

 distant, enlarged at the base, decurrent, and tapering to an 

 acute point, while those on the branchlets are very flat, closely 

 placed, regularly imbricated in four rows, much shorter, more 

 rounded, and furnished with a short spiny point ; the marginal 

 ones being more or less lanceolate, bristle-pointed, and lapping 

 over on each side, but extended at the points. Branches 

 spreading flat, more or less horizontal, irregularly scattered 

 along the stem, slender, and of a deep brown colour. Branch- 

 lets flattened, short, slender, flexible, alternately two-rowed, 

 and nearly all on the inner side, quite straight, linear, and un- 

 divided. Cones small, oval, tapering to both ends, nodding, 

 and solitary at the extremities of the short branchlets, and very 

 much resemble those of the common American Arbor-Vitas, but 

 much more swelled in the middle, and more regularly attenuated, 

 or tapering to both ends, and with the scales much larger, more 

 tapering, and much rounder or obtuse at the apex. 



A fine graceful tree, found on the North-west coast of Ame- 

 rica and California, growing from 50 to 150 feet high, with long 

 flexible branches, thickly clothed with branchlets. It is the 

 yellow cypress of the colonists, and the Indians on the N. W. 

 coast of America call it " Noo-wy-as " (Cedar), and, according 

 to Sir E. Belcher (in his voyage round the world), its 

 timber is very fine grained, bright yellow, very valuable, and 

 much used at the Russian settlement of Sitcha for building pur- 

 poses ; and that the natives at Nootka Sound manufacture their 

 cloaks of its inner bark, which turns the rain, is very pliable 

 and soft, and is in use for mats, sails, ropes, clothing, kc. ; 



