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plants become fully matured, they are entirely scale-formed, 

 ternate, very small, and closely placed ; branches scattered 

 along the main stem, horizontal, short, and not very dense ; the 

 lateral ones and smaller spray are more or less angular or tri- 

 angular, jointed, glaucous, and with the joints tolerably distant ; 

 cowes, oval or somewhat conical, and composed of 8 valvate scales; 

 scales or valves thick, rounded and convex on the outside, 

 glossy-brown, pointless, smooth, and swelling at the apex, 

 which is slightly reflected. 



A handsome erect pyramidal-shaped tree, approaching in ap- 

 pearance when old to some of the Australian Araucarias, but 

 with much shorter and slenderer branches. 



It is found but sparingly in New South AVales, where it at- 

 tains a height of from 60 to 70 feet. 



Gen. LIBOCEDE.US, Endlicher, the fcicense Cedars. 

 This Genus principally differs from Thuja, in having the 

 scales on the cones placed face to face, and not overlapping 

 each other ; and in the seeds being unequally two-winged. 



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 LiBOCEDRUS Chilensis, EndUcher, the Chili Arbor-Vitse. 

 Syn. Thuja cuneata, Dombey. 

 „ Cupressus thyoides, Pavon, not Linneeus. 

 A fine tree, growing from 60 to 80 feet high, found on the 

 Andes of Chili. 



Gen. NAGEIA, Gcertner, the Rib-leaved or Fascicled Catkin 



Yews. 



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 Nageia Japonica, Gartner, the Japan Laurel, or Nagi. 

 The leaves of this kind very much resemble those of the 

 Alexandrian Laurel (Ruscus racemosus) in general appearance, 

 being oblong-lanceolate, and from 2 to 3 inches long, and from 

 one half to an inch broad in the widest part ; male flowers in 

 fascicled aments on a common footstalk. It is found both in 



