406 THUJA. 



Thuja Occidentalis Vervaeneana, Hort, the New Belgian 



Variegated Arbor- Vita?. 



Syn. Thuja Vervaeneana, Van-Geert 



This is a pretty golden-tinted variety, with very slender 

 branchlets, raised, by M. Vervaene, of Ghent, from the com- 

 mon American Arbor- Vitse. 



Thuja Occidentalis Walthamensis, Wm. Paul, the 

 Waltham Cross seedling Arbor- Vita?. 



This kind forms a handsome, dense, pyramidal bush, from 

 six to eight feet high, and appears to be intermediate between 

 the American and Tartarian Arbor- Vitses. 



It is a fine hardy kind, raised in the Waltham Cross Nur- 

 sery, in Hertfordshire. 



No. 4. Thuja plicata, Donn, the Nootka Sound Arbor- Vitse. 



Syn. Thuja Occidentalis plicata, Loudon. 



compacta, Knight. 



., asplenifolia, Hort. 



Orientalis flagelliformis, Hort 



Wareana, Booth, not of others. 



flagelliformis, Hort. 



odorata, Marshall. 



Leaves, on the adult plants, ovate, blunt-pointed, regularly 

 imbricated in four rows, quite flat, entire, smooth, shining 

 bright green above, and dull glaucous green below ; those on 

 the upper and under sides of the branches and branchlets 

 having a conspicuous elevated gland on the back rib towards 

 the point, and are much broader and less pointed than the side 

 or marginal ones, which lap over on both sides, and appear 

 shorter, more pointed, and regularly jointed, while those on 

 the young plants are very much pointed, particularly the 

 marginal ones, which appear nearly lanceolate, and extended 

 at the points, decurrent at the base, loosely imbricated, and 



