1070 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



North America, at Nootka Sound. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 



1796, and frequent in collections. 



A very branchy, spreading, light green tree. Branches crowded, covered 

 with a reddish brown bark ; branchlets dense, often divided, pectinate, com- 

 pressed. 



1 3. T. CHILE NSCS Lamb. The Chili Arbor Vitas. 



Identification. Lamb Pin., ed. 2., 2. p. 128., No. 62. 



fnonyme. Cupressus fhyoldes Pavon MSS. 

 igraving. Our Jig. 2110. in p. 11 10. 



Spec, Char., fyc. Branchlets jointed, spreading, compressed. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, somewhat 3-angled, imbricated in 4 rows, adpresscd, naked, 

 furrowed on both sides. Cones oval- oblong ; scales 4, compressed, elliptic, 

 obtuse. Seeds winged at the apex, entire. (Lamb.) A beautiful dark 

 green spreading tree. Chili, on the Andes. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Not 

 yet introduced. 



ii. Biota. 

 4. 71 ORIENTA V LIS L The Oriental, or Chinese, Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1422.; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 11. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t, 149. ; and our fig. 1992. 



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

 rhomboid, adpressed, furrowed along the middle. Cones elliptic ; interior 

 scales blunt, mucronate beneath the apex. (Willd.) A low evergreen tree, 

 or fastigiate shrub. China and Siberia, in rocky situations ; and also on 

 the mountains of Japan. Height 18ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1752. 

 Flowering in May, and ripening its brown cones in the following autumn. 



Varieties. 



* T. o. 2 stricta Hort. T. pyramidalis Baum. Cat. ed. 1837 ; and the 



plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st ed. vol. viii. More fastigiate than 

 the species in its habit of growth. 



* T. O. 3 tatdrica. T. tatarica Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836 ; T. Waredna Booth 



Cat. 1839. Leaves, and the entire plant, rather smaller than in the 

 species. 



1992. T. orientals. 



A low tree or large shrub; distinguishable, at first sight, from the American 



