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remarkable on account of most of the leaves being linear and 

 spreading, showing a tendency to develop two kinds of leaves in 

 this genus, a common occurrence in Junipers. The variegated 

 varieties have little to recommend them, though that called 

 Vervceneana is rather more distinct than some of them. 



13. THUJ6PSIS. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees with scale-like sickle shaped ap- 

 pressed imbricate leaves, monoecious flowers, and globular cones. 

 Scales of the fruit woody, overlapping, with about 5 winged 

 seeds at the base of each. A Japanese genus of recent intro- 

 duction, including some of the most curious and beautiful 

 members of this order. The name is from Thuja and^ ov/ris*, 

 resemblance. For Th. borealis, see Cupressus Nuikaensis. 



1. Th. dolabrata. This was the first species introduced, and 

 as a small shrub it stands almost unrivalled in the rich verdure 

 of its glossy hatchet-shaped leaves and peculiar growth. In 

 Japan it is said to form a most splendid tree of large size, and 

 from its apparent hardiness we may look for it to do well with 

 us, though it is not of very rapid growth. The leaves are 

 somewhat loosely imbricated and more or less silvery on the 

 under surface or shady side. But it is perhaps the habit of 

 this plant that constitutes its most striking feature. The main 

 branches are few and rather loose and spreading, with numerous 

 compressed pendulous branchlets, and it does not readily form 

 a distinct leader, or rather the leader does not appear distinctly 

 above the lateral branches. It appears to prefer a moist cool 

 soil. There is a variety in which the foliage is prettily 

 variegated with pale yellow, and another, called ndna, of very 

 dwarf habit. 



2. Th. Icetevwenis. A small shrub about 4 or 5 feet high, 

 with slender foliage resembling that of a Lycopod. It is 

 described as an exquisitely beautiful hardy shrub, but it is 

 still very rare in this country except as a very small plant. 



3. Th. Standishii. This approaches Th. dolabrata, and may 

 be nothing more than a distinct variety of that species. The 

 branches are more pendulous in this, and the foliage smaller, 

 glaucous, not silvery beneath. 



These are probably garden varieties of Th. dolabrata, but 

 they are sufficiently distinct to be desirable. 



